A vehicle ploughed into a crowd at a popular off-road race in the Southern California desert, killing eight people and leaving 12 wounded.

POLICE in New York believe the body of a two-year-old child discovered in the Passaic River last Sunday may have been removed from a grave at a Connecticut cemetery.

THE new aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan, has saluted Ballyporeen, the ancestral home of the former American president whose name it proudly bears.