The New York Times’ website went down for several hours in its second major disruption this month, with a hacker group calling itself the “Syrian Electronic Army” claiming responsibility.

An American journalist has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than one month ago, his family said today, less than two years after he was held by government forces in Libya while covering that country’s civil war.

AN AUSTRALIAN girl spontaneously switched blood groups and adopted her donor’s immune system following a liver transplant in the first known case of its type, doctors treating her said yesterday.