AMANDA Knox walked free last Monday, ending a nightmare that dominated her life for the last four years. An Italian appeal court acquitted her of the murder of Meredith Kercher in November 2007. Knox is from Seattle, Kercher was British.

US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner is to face a congressional grilling about suppressed details about deals that funnelled billions to big investment banks while he was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Anxious Italian politicians today tried to quash suggestions of an escalating diplomatic rift with the US over the conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

A FORMER boyfriend of Meredith Kercher said he would be “forever haunted” by her violent death.

The World Trade Organisation said Britain and other European countries gave billions to Airbus in illegal subsidies, in a trade dispute ruling that backed its rival, US aviation giant Boeing.