AN attempt to arrest US federal prison guards in a sex-for-contraband probe erupted in gunfire that killed a Justice Department agent and one of the guards yesterday.

Washington sniper John Muhammad will be sentenced in Maryland today, after being convicted of another six killings.

Hollinger Inc, a Canadian holding company formerly controlled by ousted media magnate Conrad Black, has signed a deal to cooperate with the US Attorney’s Office in its criminal prosecution of the former Daily Telegraph boss and several others.

Saying the US “does not surrender to blackmail,” a judge in New York ruled today that pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America’s image.

A man who was sacked from a factory after he was caught stealing from his employer forced his way into his former workplace and shot colleagues one day before he was due to report to prison.