USA: A teenager posing as a state senator toured a high school and spoke to a class, and school officials didn’t realise they were fooled until weeks later, authorities in Ohio said.

USA: A New York man is building his own sovereign nation called Zaqistan on a remote piece of land in Utah.

A teenager driving a stolen car leads cops on a merry chase. Enter guy with truck.

A US primary school boy caught with a gun at school told staff he brought the weapon to defend himself in case of an attack similar to the mass shooting in Connecticut.