But Romney prepares for risky return to the campaign trail today with rally in Florida

Bernie Ecclestone has said the French Grand Prix could return as early as next year. France last held a race in 2008, but a lack of money and a failure to improve Magny Cours saw it fall by the wayside.

Grand Prix of America promoter Leo Hindery Jnr is adamant he remains “100 per cent committed” to the project despite confirming a postponement of the race until 2014.

The Rolling Stones today confirmed their first live shows for five years with four gigs, including two nights in London.

Republicans hope wife can 'humanise' their candidate as she reveals his softer side

New Jersey's child-welfare agency, long under federal oversight for high-profile lapses, said it will review its role in the case of a mother who decapitated her 2-year-old son and killed herself just five months after regaining custody of the child.

Millions of people in a swath of states along the US East Coast and farther west went into a third sweltering day without power today after a round of summer storms that killed more than a dozen people.

Over 4,000 fans of the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic have gathered for a convention dedicated to the show - and specifically to its male fans.

Greek ghosts haunt desperate housewives in a mid-life comedy

Man confesses to killing of six-year-old whose disappearance prompted long-running campaign

A man jumped into a vat of acid to save a co-worker who fell in after crashing through the roof of a US factory.

Sid Moody, who died on15 April aged 83, chronicled many major events of the 20th century for Associated Press, from the assassination of John F Kennedy to the Iranian hostage crisis. He wrote or co-wrote several books including the bestselling The Torch is Passed, on the Kennedy assassination, and 444 Days: The American Hostage Story about the Iranian hostage crisis.

Maryland state lottery officials announced early Saturday their state sold what could become the world's largestlottery payout of all-time, but it wasn't immediately clear if that ticket holder would get sole possession of the $640m (£400m) jackpot or have to split it with other winners.

James Delingpole says there's no guilt attached to liking facile, manufactured and tasteless music