THE New York Times’ dramatic 8,500-word story about the April 20, 2010, oil rig explosion off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, which killed 11 people and led to the worst spill in US history, is being made into a movie.

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TOP Vatican officials, including the future Pope Benedict XVI, did not react to letters about an American priest who molested as many as 200 deaf school children.

The brother of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan denied reports today that he has been in the pay of the CIA for the past eight years.

Hillary Clinton adopted a sharper tone as she came face-to-face with Barack Obama in a bid to revive her ailing campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, but never achieved a “knockout blow”, US political pundits said today.

Not content with giving the food at Gordon Ramsay’s first New York restaurant a roasting, the city’s top critic has now had a go at his toilets.

Angry New York firefighters today criticised a book that accuses some of their colleagues of looting after the September 11 terror attacks.