Doctors and search dogs, troops and rescue teams are flying into devastated Haiti, finding bottlenecks everywhere, beginning at a main airport short on jet fuel and ramp space and without a control tower.

President Barack Obama said his thoughts and prayers were with the people of Haiti, where a strong earthquake hit, and the United States stood ready to help the island nation.

A top aide to Honduras’ ousted president accused the United States of involvement in the coup, saying that the plane that flew Manuel Zelaya into exile stopped to refuel at an airfield where hundreds of US troops are based.

A summit of Latin American leaders aimed at cooling Colombia’s growing border crisis turned into an angry showdown today, with the president of Colombia accusing his Ecuadorian counterpart of having been financed by Colombian rebels.

US, Honduran and Nicaraguan soldiers searched remote jungle beaches and the open sea for survivors and bodies after Hurricane Felix claimed at least 98 lives, many of them Miskito Indians who died fleeing the Category 5 storm.

Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast as a record-breaking Category 5 monster storm today in an area home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians.

A London-based human rights group accused the US military of failing to adequately investigate the latest allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay and urged officials to open the detention centre to more independent monitors.

An Army officer’s investigation into allegations that guards bragged about beating Guantanamo Bay detainees has found no evidence of mistreatment, military officials said today.

US Army Gen. Bantz Craddock, formerly head of the US military command responsible for Guantanamo Bay, today takes over as Nato’s supreme allied commander in Europe.

Former Iraq commander Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez said today he had been forced to retire from the US Army over the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

A US military investigation has found evidence of degrading and abusive treatment by interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba, which is being used as a prison for terrorist suspects.

SUSPECTED terrorists will continue to be held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Vice-President Dick Cheney says, amid concerns by some fellow Republicans that the situation may be counterproductive.

Suspected terrorists will continue to be held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said US Vice President Dick Cheney, amid concerns by some fellow Republicans the situation may be counterproductive.

The Pentagon has admitted for the first time that a soldier deliberately kicked the Koran at Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, and that an interrogator stepped on the Muslim holy book and was later sacked for “a pattern of unacceptable behaviour”.

Four US officers, including a one-star general, at the detention centre for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are under criminal investigation for alleged sexual misconduct, a senior defence official has said.

Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the United States military base in Guantanamo Bay on Cuba during a mass protest in 2003, the United States military confirmed.

THE US Defence Department last year approved interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba that include forcing inmates to strip naked and subjecting them to loud music, bright lights and sleep deprivation, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

Military chiefs responsible for running the Guantanamo Bay prison housing Taliban and al-Qaida suspects said cases of prisoner abuse were dealt with quickly to prevent the type of scandal plaguing US officials in Iraq.

The US Army has dropped all charges against a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified documents at the naval base detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where suspected terrorists are held.

US MARINES shot and killed two gunmen who opened fire on them yesterday, bringing to four the number of Haitians to die this week at the hands of the peacekeepers.

A former Muslim chaplain at the US military prison for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been charged with disobeying orders by improperly handling classified information.

A small plane has crashed into the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Miami.

Analysts say America's military response to the terrorist attacks is likely to be a series of air strikes and relatively small-scale raids by special forces.