Detectives in the UK investigating the deaths of a woman and her baby daughter arrested a 21-year-old man today on suspicion of murder.

Hurricane Lili gave Louisiana’s coast a 100 mph overnight battering that swamped streets, knocked out power and snapped trees.

Nearly a half-million people in the US were today urged to flee their homes as a a fearsome hurricane barrelled toward the Gulf Coast with 140 mph winds.

Nasa’s first shuttle launch in four months was postponed today because of Hurricane Lili.

More than 127,000 Cubans fled today as Hurricane Lili struck the Caribbean island nation with violent winds and torrents of rain.