Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in the fatal shooting of 17 people at a Florida school.

Long before the TV show, novelist Rona Jaffe wrote of young girls battling sexism in ’50s New York, says Suzanne Harrington.

Detectives are investigating an alleged extortion bid by Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva against the actor-director.

A US judge is considering whether to force an associate of alleged pyramid scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff to give evidence after he failed to appear at a hearing with Massachusetts securities regulators.

Victor F Weisskopf, an acclaimed physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb and later advocated arms control, has died at the age of 93.