A nine-year-old boy has appeared in a US juvenile court accused of accidentally shooting a classmate.

In one of the largest settlements in the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal, an order of priests has agreed to pay $166.1m (€118m) to hundreds of Native Americans and Alaska Natives who were abused at the order’s schools in the north western US.

PROSTITUTES, cat food, trips to Africa: There are few limits to the expenses Americans believe should be tax deductible, but given the complexity of the tax code they may be forgiven.