The political row over the stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the US escalated yesterday, when presidential plaudits for part of the project served only to highlight how the White House has blocked full approval.

As Super Tuesday dawns, and Republicans in 10 states begin the biggest day in the nomination battle, Guy Adams sees the staunch Christian candidate hit Oklahoma – and the evangelical heartlands

American golf suffered a blow yesterday when one of its brightest young talents announced he is to base his professional career on the European Tour. Peter Uihlein has made what his agent claims is "a pioneering move" to focus on the global game instead of the sometimes insular world of the PGA Tour.

A wildfire in a popular Texas holiday spot has destroyed 39 homes, sweeping through the Possum Kingdom Lake area on Tuesday and Wednesday and scorching about 6,200 acres.

Actress Daryl Hannah has been arrested in front of the White House along with other environmental protesters opposing a planned oil pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast.

Here, in the year 2011, Darwin and his new-fangled ideas about natural selection are still considered highly taboo.

Police arrived at an island massacre about 90 minutes after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.

An unlikely success story is recounted in Stephen C Mitchell's patchwork rockumentary.

A line of violent thunderstorms roared across middle America, killing six people in two states, with several tornadoes touching down in Oklahoma and high winds pounding rural Kansas.

Tornadoes can occur in many parts of the world, but are most frequently found the United States east of the Rocky Mountains during the spring and summer months. In an average year, 800 tornadoes are reported in the US, resulting in 80 deaths and over 1,500 injuries.

On 19 April 1995, America suffered its first ever domestic terrorist attack in Oklahoma City, when a bomb went off at a federal government building.

Rescue crews searched for survivors yesterday after a storm spawned dozens of tornadoes across the southern US, killing 45 people in six states from Oklahoma to North Carolina, the hardest hit, with 62 twisters and at least 21 dead.

The Supreme Court has blocked the first scheduled execution of an inmate in Texas using pentobarbital.

Hanson can't believe they are still making music 14 years after releasing their first single.