Christine Cavanaugh, a prolific voice actress who brought to life characters including Babe the pig, has died aged 51.

Three Afghan asylum seekers set fire to their boat in a deliberate act of sabotage, causing an explosion that killed five people, an Australian coroner ruled today.

US agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a murder spree in the state of Tennessee.