A CHARTERED airliner carrying Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama was forced to make an unscheduled landing today in St Louis after its flight crew detected mechanical problems
USING his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old service station owner has flown a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 helium balloons more than 320km across the US
EXHAUSTED firefighters raced to contain hundreds of wildfires raging across California as forecasters warned today that a looming heatwave is set to deliver drier, hotter conditions
JESSE Helms, a die-hard anti-communist firebrand who championed a wide range of conservative causes in his 30 years in the US Senate, has died at the age of 86
THE US government is developing a "long-range plan" to empty its war-on-terror prison at its naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and seeking help on what to do with inmates who won`t be tried, The Washington Post reported today
GOOGLE has expressed disappointment at a judge`s order to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube
