FOUR Guantanamo Bay detainees have been released and resettled in Bermuda, US officials said.

US president Barack Obama’s Justice Department shocked human rights activists today as it backed the former Bush administration, saying detainees in Afghanistan had no constitutional rights.

In a jail cell at an immigration detention centre in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with a crime, not suspected of a crime and not considered a danger to society.

Colombian drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela was flown to the United States early today on a US government plane, becoming the most powerful Colombian trafficker ever extradited to face US courts.

A clown who goes by the name of Spanky has been arrested on child porn charges while travelling with legendary the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus in the US.