Up to 13 people were killed and 26 others injured when a man armed with a high-powered rifle opened fire in New York today, according to US reports.

A newly-released security camera tape shows the emergency ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River.

The decision by the daughter of murdered US president John F Kennedy to abandon her bid for a US Senate seat sparked an ugly swirl of accusations today and feverish speculation over whether she jumped or was pushed.

CAROLINE KENNEDY withdrew her senate bid because of a personal matter unrelated to her ill uncle, rejecting the governor’s attempt to get her to reconsider, a person who worked closely with her said yesterday.

US senator Ted Kennedy was said to be doing well today after he was released from the hospital following his seizure at Barack Obama’s inaugural lunch event.

Plane crash investigators will today attempt to recover the wreckage of a passenger jet that plummeted into New York’s Hudson River, miraculously leaving no-one seriously hurt.

The pilot who miraculously landed a plane on New York’s Hudson River without any loss of life was today coming to terms with his new-found hero status.

THE Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted overwhelmingly yesterday for Hillary Clinton to become the next secretary of state, with lawmakers saying they were hopeful her leadership would mark a turn from warfare toward diplomacy.

American International Group will be allowed to use $20bn (€14bn) of assets held by its subsidiaries to provide cash needed for the troubled insurer to stay in business.

Manchester United’s embattled sponsor American International Group (AIG) was today granted a $20bn (€14bn) lifeline to shore-up its finances.

Rescuers in New York City are trying to find three people still missing after a crane smashed into a townhouse.

A crane rising 19 stories alongside a New York skyscraper under construction toppled like a tree across a city block, crashing into apartment buildings, killing four people and setting off a scramble for survivors.

RESCUERS in New York city were last night trying to find three people missing after a crane smashed into a townhouse in Manhattan on Saturday afternoon, killing at least four construction workers and injuring 17.

BRITISH forces yesterday made their deepest incursion into Basra.

British forces today made their deepest incursion yet into Basra in an operation described as “poking a toe” into the city.

A group of scientists from a Scottish university is to play a key role in a major programme to find the best way to stop Venice sinking into the sea.