One person died and 13 others were injured when a driver intentionally steered his car onto a pavement on the crowded Las Vegas Strip and then accelerated in a deadly scene resembling “humans being mowed down like a lawnmower”, police said today.

Saddam Hussein’s government may have executed 61,000 Baghdad residents, a number significantly higher than previously believed, according to a survey today.

A retired 83-year-old Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years probation for sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in 1986.