A STAGE collapsed during a storm at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday, sending steel scaffolding into the terrified crowd and killing at least five people awaiting a performance by the country band Sugarland.

A MAN wanted in a Pennsylvania double homicide and apparent abduction of 14-year-old girl was captured last night after a car he was driving crashed in Indiana following a police pursuit, State Police said.

Captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is suffering from a chronic prostate infection but has refused a biopsy to rule out cancer, the country’s human rights minister says.

A bomb exploded during an attempt to defuse it today, killing two soldiers and wounding 10 others, the official Gulf News Agency said.