AUSTRALIAN cycling coach Rick Lee was handcuffed and escorted to a US jail today after a judge ordered him to stand trial for the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl
MOST US women are unimpressed by Republican John McCain`s choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, and have thrown their weight behind the Democratic ticket in the race for the White House, a national poll showed today
NEW Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has allowed residents to return to the city, voiding a mandatory evacuation order and lifting police roadblocks more than 12 hours earlier than planned
VICE presidential pick Sarah Palin was to seek to quell a raging personal and political storm with her high-stakes primetime speech to the Republican National Convention today
TROPICAL storm Hanna has claimed at least 26 lives in Haiti, a toll officials fear will climb during the search for survivors in the debris from damaged and destroyed homes
ENVIRONMENTAL and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins today staged a die-in in Washington to protest what they called the "horrific butchering" of thousands of dolphins by Japanese fishermen every year
US President George W. Bush overnight urged Republicans to rally around his chosen successor, John McCain, calling him right on the Iraq war and declaring McCain "ready to lead" the United States
