ENGLAND: A polar bear appears to have turned up in London.

Teams of workers have been sent in to clean the Texas apartment block where a US nurse lives, following her Ebola diagnosis.

Zoo chiefs say they are at a loss to explain why a lioness was killed by a lion in front of horrified families.

A sports teacher has worn the same outfit in 40 consecutive yearbooks.

Tributes were flooding in from around the world today following the death of Dallas star Larry Hagman.

A female flight attendant who started ranting about a possible crash over the public address system of an American Airlines plane on Friday was subdued by passengers and crew as the plane returned to the gate, passengers said.

A man attending a birthday party at a roller-skating rink opened fire after an apparent spat between family members, killing five people and wounding at least four others before shooting himself.

A DALLAS suburb agreed to pay $175,000 (€120,750) for the house where Lee Harvey Oswald stored the rifle used to assassinate US President John F Kennedy.

LAST Friday three clean-cut young American backpackers arrived at Dublin airport from Texas. They were setting out on the first international leg of a yearlong trip around Europe.

FRESH doubts have been raised over Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks’ ability to fund the club’s proposed new home in Stanley Park following a shock decision to delay the building of a stadium in Texas.

Fresh doubts have been raised over Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks’ ability to fund the club’s proposed new home in Stanley Park following a shock decision to delay the building of a stadium in Texas.

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks will be back in Texas tonight as the Anfield men bid to reach the Champions League semi-finals.

Like their communities, The Sun Herald of south Mississippi and The Times-Picayune of New Orleans took a beating from Hurricane Katrina. Their buildings were damaged, advertisers and subscribers were displaced and circulation dropped.

A CARDINAL mentioned as a candidate to be the next Pope sent a fugitive priest accused of molesting an altar boy in Costa Rica to work in two remote parishes in Honduras, it was reported yesterday.

US AUTHORITIES have charged a Texas mother with capital murder for allegedly beating two of her young sons, aged six and eight, to death with rocks.

Charred human remains have been found among the debris from the stricken space shuttle Columbia.

The FBI have widened the search for seven men who escaped from a Texas prison in what has become the state's biggest-ever manhunt.