Congressional leaders showed no signs of giving ground to resolve the next step in America’s financial crisis, with Democrats still talking about higher taxes on the wealthy and the Senate’s top Republican suggesting a crippling default on US loans was possible unless there were significant cuts in government spending.

A yacht captain says he lied to investigators about Hollywood actress Natalie Wood’s mysterious death 30 years ago and blames her husband, Robert Wagner, for her drowning in the sea off Southern California.

Basing their facts on the same presidential election results, US TV networks diverged today in projecting a winner in the key state of Ohio.

MICHAEL KEOHANE made a dramatic return to the British Formula 3 Championship at Thruxton where he claimed a podium place in the first race and drove a sensational race

Marks & Spencer is to use DNA testing to help it track the origin of meat products back to the exact animal they came from.