The US economy is showing “glimmers of hope” despite continuing stresses, President Barack Obama said today as he signalled more steps to improve the business climate.

AN American theatre company is auditioning students for a very elaborate €10,000 musical Robin Hood they plan to stage next Thursday and Friday — free of charge.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger toured the community hardest hit by the state’s first deadly earthquake in nine years, declaring a local state of emergency as aftershocks rattled beneath the central California wine country.