The land of the free aaaaaand … excuse me sir, could you step this way?

A rollercoaster derailed at a California amusement park, slightly injuring four people and leaving 22 stranded about 20 feet in the air.

Italy 27 USA 10

AUSTRALIA coach Robbie Deans was happy with the progress made in the win over the United States, but there was also cause for concern as the Wallabies’ injury toll mounted in Wellington.

UNITED STATES captain Todd Clever admitted he was a nervous man after his side held off a late Russian rally to win their Pool C encounter 13-6 in New Plymouth.

A SERIES of successes by recent mothers has prompted questions whether childbirth, far from spelling the end of a sporting career, can actually boost an athlete’s performance.

Remembrance Day ceremonies were today held across Northern Ireland for soldiers killed in two world wars and other conflicts around the globe including the Troubles.

The US government will do what it can to help shut down a website linked to the terror group behind the Omagh bombing, the families of the victims were told today.

Omagh bomb victims will today urge the US government to help them shut down a website linked to the terror group behind the atrocity.

OMAGH bomb victims will today urge the US Government to help them shut down a website linked to the group behind the blast.

Allegations that loyalist killers were shielded by police are to be raised with officials in Washington, the US Consul General in the North vowed today.

A BABY has beaten odds of 13 million to one to be born fit and healthy despite having grown in her mother’s abdomen instead of her womb.

The IRA tonight washed their hands of the republicans suspected of a Belfast pub brawl murder.

Jurors in Charleston, South Carolina, convicted a 15-year-old boy who claimed an antidepressant drug drove him to murder his grandparents, rejecting the first defence in the United States in which a juvenile claimed the effects of the drug caused him to kill.

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy, who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft drove him to kill his grandparents, was jailed for murder yesterday.

FANI Halkia of Greece pulled off a stunning upset to win the Olympic Games women’s 400 metres hurdles gold medal in the Olympic Stadium last night.

A US Army reservist charged with abusing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison is to plead guilty to some offences.

Jana Pittman, the 400 metre hurdles world champion, may have proven hasty in ruling herself out of the Olympics after an arthroscopy on her damaged knee today gave the Australian significant cause for hope.

Jana Pittman, the 400 metre hurdles world champion, today conceded she will not run at the Athens Olympics after damaging her right knee in a freak training accident on Friday.

Australian Olympic chief John Coates today described the possibility of world 400m hurdles champion Jana Pittman missing the Olympics as “tragic”.

A US marine reservist has appeared at a military court hearing on charges that he karate-kicked an Iraqi prisoner who later died.

Bob Pittman has stepped down as chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner in a shake-up at the world’s largest media company.