A man suspected of randomly attacking four people with a hammer in New York has been shot and arrested.

The number of victims of a suspected serial killer on New York's Long Island has doubled in the past week after the discovery of three more corpses along a remote beach highway.

Eight people leaving a party at a US restaurant were shot, four of them fatally, including a man returning to his hometown to celebrate his first wedding anniversary, police said.

MENTION Chicago anywhere in the world, and those who don’t think of the wind will probably more than likely whip a Tommy gun from their hip and rain you with imaginary bullets.

Police sifting through debris of the World Trade Centre have found 3,000 body fragments which are being used to identify victims.