An RAF cyclist said that he came across the horrific French Alps killings to find a little girl "stumbling" around, bleeding and "moaning", it has emerged today.

A sleeping seven-year-old girl was killed when a Detroit police officer’s gun went off during a search for a murder suspect.

Brittany Murphy’s husband and mother were questioned by coroners at their home yesterday.

Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy, who got her start in the hit 'Clueless' and rose to stardom in '8 Mile', died yesterday in Los Angeles of what appeared to be natural causes, a coroner’s official said.

Authorities investigating Michael Jackson's death referred to him as an "addict" and were seeking evidence related to the powerful anaesthetic propofol, according to search warrants released last night.

THE more than 1.6 million fans who registered to attend Michael Jackson’s memorial service were yesterday waiting to learn whether they were among the lucky few to win tickets for tomorrow’s ceremony in Los Angeles.

A GUNMAN killed his mother, her boyfriend and a home health care worker before shooting himself.

A twin-engine Cessna crashed in a field near a Texas airport, killing all three people aboard, authorities said.

A police official today said narcotics officers in the US were justified in returning fire on a 92-year-old woman they shot dead after she shot them as they tried to serve a warrant at her house.

United States and Argentine authorities were investigating how a stick of dynamite in a college student’s checked luggage ended up on a Houston-bound flight, one of seven security incidents that disrupted US flights in a day.

A woman made it into the upper ranks of policing in Northern Ireland for the first time tonight when she was appointed as an Assistant Chief Constable.

A black man died after being clubbed repeatedly by officers in a videotaped beating that raised new claims of police brutality in Cincinnati, nearly three years after the Ohio city was rocked by riots.

A black man died after being struck repeatedly by Cincinnati police wielding metal nightsticks, and the city’s mayor said today a videotape showed that the officers were defending themselves.

Fire crews battling the blaze at Port Talbot steelworks feared a series of devastating secondary fires would whip through the plant, it was revealed today.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams today rejected claims made by an anti-Agreement unionist naming those alleged to be leading members of the Provisional IRA.