THE Boy Scouts of America have been slapped with two lawsuits demanding the organisation cover the $14 million (€11.25m) it cost to fight a June 2002 blaze it claims scouts started in Wyoming.

An out-of-control wildfire in Nevada destroyed at least six luxury homes and came close to the governor’s mansion, officials said.

A South African national convicted of killing his estranged wife’s lover in the desert outside Las Vegas was executed last night at the Nevada State Prison.