An Irish nanny living illegally in America has been charged with violently assaulting a baby who later died, US authorities said.

The body of the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut primary school has been claimed for burial.

More than a week after a busy bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River, US divers began recovering the bodies of people missing and presumed dead.

Authorities in Panama City, Florida, today released a video tape showing guards restraining a boy at a juvenile detention boot camp just hours before he died.

American Terri Schiavo did not suffer any trauma prior to her 1990 collapse and her brain was about half of normal size when she died, according to results of an autopsy conducted on the severely brain-damaged woman released today.