Elwin Wilson, who died on 28 March at the age of 76, was a former Ku Klux Klan supporter who publicly apologised for years of violent racism, including the beating of a black Freedom Rider who went on to become a Georgia congressman.

An American woman faces charges after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend and throwing his prosthetic legs in the yard so he couldn't pursue her.

Elizabeth Colbert Busch clinches nomination for Congressional seat

John Walsh gives a summary of the talks at the Bath Literary festival

Culliver was talking in the build-up to this weekend's showpiece event

The second inaugural address has rarely been memorable. Save for Abraham Lincoln’s, which struck a series of soaring notes, including “Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty source of war may speedily pass away”, they are fraught with difficulty.

Striving for The Great American Novel, to comic effect

Leslie Woit finds treats for the body and spirit in America's snow-capped peaks and valleys

This tropical paradise has long been calling pleasure seekers to its shores, writes John Walsh

Follow the latitude of luxury at 35 north

The dance drug ecstasy can help people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to benefit from psychotherapy, researchers have found.

Paperback reviews of the week

Mitt Romney may not have been the saviour they were looking for, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a Republican who truly believes that a different candidate, from the array who put themselves up for the Presidential nomination, would have made a better fist of the job.

A waterborne parasite commonly known as “brain-eating amoeba” has killed 10 people in Pakistan's largest city, a Pakistani official with the World Health Organization said today.