During a game between the University of Miami’s Hurricanes and University of Virginia’s Cavaliers over the weekend, one man managed to entertain the masses - and the commentators - with a slightly bizarre but utterly heartfelt performance.

George Soros, the 83-year-old billionaire investor, philanthropist and active supporter of liberal political causes, married health care and education consultant Tamiko Bolton at the weekend.

Doctors have warned teenagers against taking part in the 'cinnamon challenge'.

Comfort eating is on the rise due to the recession, psychologists believe.

Doctors in Miami have performed the first surgery to remove a tumour from an unborn baby’s mouth.

A bank clerk was kidnapped from his home today by robbers who strapped a suspected bomb to his chest and forced him to help them steal money from a bank in Miami, the FBI said.

OIL from a blown-out well is forming huge underwater plumes as much as 16km long below the visible slick in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists said as BP wrestled for a third day with its latest contraption for slowing the nearly month-old gusher.

UNDERSEA robots tried to thread a small tube into the jagged pipe that is pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico yesterday in BP’s latest attempt to cut down on the spill from a blown-out well that has pumped out more than four million gallons of crude.

A sense of foreboding enveloped the American coastline from Louisiana to Florida today as the massive BP oil slick spewing from a ruptured well kept growing.

DOCTORS skirted a bureaucratic logjam to save the life of two critically ill child victims of Haiti’s earthquake yesterday, flying them to US hospitals on a private jet to avoid a military suspension of medical evacuation flights.

Rescuers were searching the ocean off Florida for survivors after a boat carrying about 30 people – many of them Haitian immigrants seeking to escape their country’s crushing poverty – capsized and sank.

An old leg injury has surfaced as a key element in an appeal that seeks to keep a condemned Texas inmate from being executed this evening.

US prosecutors and lawyers for alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and two co-defendants were poised to start opening statements today in a trial expected to last well into August.

A United States accountancy professor said to be the first man outside Asia identified as being directly descended from Genghis Khan says he does not believe the warlord is his ancestor after all.