Senate candidate and former Virginia Governor Mark Warner is scheduled to deliver the Tuesday night keynote address at this year’s Democratic National Convention – the same role that launched Barack Obama to national prominence four years ago.

HURRICANE ISABEL screamed ashore in North Carolina yesterday as furious winds and torrential rains forced evacuations throughout the US mid-Atlantic region, the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights and shut down the federal government in Washington.

A Pakistani man who killed two CIA employees in a 1993 shooting rampage outside the agency’s US headquarters has been executed as the government warned of global retaliation against Americans.

A businessman shot while a police officer stood just 50 metres away was the 10th victim of a sniper who has been stalking the Washington area, police confirmed today.