IN Claxton, Georgia, USA, the annual rattlesnake roundup is being transformed into a “rattlesnake and wildlife festival”.

Legendary American trainer Angelo Dundee has died at the age of 90, according to reports.

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged with murder after allegedly beating a toddler to death with a baseball bat because she was crying while he was trying to watch television, US authorities said.

Howard Hunt, who helped organise the Watergate break-in that led to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon’s presidency, has died.

A jogger in the US was killed by an alligator which ripped her arms off before dragging her body into a canal.

A street gang leader who led the rebellion that forced Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to flee has been arrested in Miami, officials said today.

A routine security check at Miami International Airport turned into a diplomatic flap when the unhappy subjects turned out to be the future king of Spain and his fiancée.

Rap stars including 50 Cent, P Diddy and Busta Rhymes have been under secret surveillance by police in the United States, it emerged today.

Airport security workers found a loaded handgun stuffed inside a brown teddy bear that a nine-year-old boy was carrying on a trip home after his family’s Florida holiday.

Airport security workers found a loaded handgun stuffed inside a brown teddy bear that a nine-year-old boy was carrying on a trip home after his family’s Florida holiday.

Kentucky racing officials have called a press conference for later on today after inquiring into allegations that Jose Santos used an illegal electrical device in the Kentucky Derby.

THE parents of a ba