Missouri governor Jay Nixon has ordered the US state’s National Guard to begin withdrawing from Ferguson, where nightly scenes of unrest have erupted since a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old.

The militarisation of policing must stop in wake of Ferguson shooting, writes Joseph D. McNamara

US police officers in St Louis shot and killed a 23-year-old man who they say was wielding a knife and refused to drop it. 

Missouri governor Jay Nixon lifted the curfew for the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson yesterday and began deploying National Guard troops to help quell days of rioting and protests spurred by the fatal shooting of a black unarmed teenager by a white policeman. 

America’s attorney general has ordered a new post-mortem examination on a black teenager whose shooting by a white police officer sparked protests in Missouri.

Police arrested seven protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, early yesterday as they imposed a curfew aimed at quelling days of violence that erupted after an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer

The first night of a state-imposed curfew in Ferguson, Missouri, where a black teenager was shot by a white police officer while walking down the street, ended with tear gas and arrests of some protesters.

The police chief in the St Louis suburb where an officer fatally shot an unarmed teenager has identified the officer as Darren Wilson.

Police used tear gas and smoke bombs to repel crowds who threw Molotov cocktails during another violent night on the streets of a St Louis suburb in the wake of the shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.

President Barack Obama today appealed for “peace and calm” on the streets of a St Louis suburb besieged by violent clashes between police and crowds protesting the shooting death of an unarmed teenager.

Police used tear gas and smoke bombs to repel crowds who threw Molotov cocktails during another violent night on the streets of a St Louis suburb in the wake of the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people as it blasted a Missouri town off the map and tore through its hospital.

At least 89 people have been killed by a massive tornado that brought devastation to a city in the US state of Missouri.

A massive storm system has spawned tornados along a broad swathe of the US Midwest, with one city in Missouri hit with such force that dozens of cars were overturned and entire neighbourhoods razed to the ground, leaving only a forest of splintered tree trunks behind.