A gunman shot three people dead before being killed by police after a siege at a Colorado house today.

The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in the US died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he was shot by police, the FBI announced today.

US police have begun the intricate process of disarming booby traps in the apartment of the suspect behind the Colorado cinema shootings, hoping to find clues to the motive for the rampage without causing an explosion that could destroy key evidence.

A man convicted of child abuse for forcing his three grandsons on a gruelling hike in the Grand Canyon was sentenced to 27 months in prison, the minimum term the judge could have imposed.

Four theories on why Facebook spent $1bn on Instagram:

WHAT’S a rebel without a cause.

AMONG the phrases you really, really do not want to hear from climate scientists are: “that really shocked us,” “we had no idea how bad it was,” and “reality is well ahead of the climate models”.

Nip/Tuck star Kelly Carlson has blasted US host Larry King for giving Paris Hilton a priority slot on his talk show.

Australian uranium exports to China could begin early next year, with Australia expected to capture about one third of the growing Chinese uranium market, a government official said today.

The US Air Force has dropped criminal charges against two fighter pilots who mistakenly bombed Canadian troops in Afghanistan last year, killing four.

Halfway through a presidential term buffeted by terrorism and an improbable tangle in Congress, Americans were voting today in elections that offered both parties a chance to gain control of Congress.

The Hawaiian masked angelfish, one of the rarest and most sought-after ornamental fish in the world, has been bred in captivity for the first time, the Waikiki Aquarium in Honolulu said.