Relatives of the man suspected of shooting dead three California police officers said the 26-year-old parolee was frustrated about not finding work and feared returning to jail.

More than 700 additional US troops arrived in Iraq’s increasingly volatile Diyala province today, to try to quell burgeoning violence just north-east of Baghdad.

A US Army interrogator facing up to life behind bars for killing an Iraqi general by stuffing him head-first into a sleeping bag and sitting on his chest will instead escape with a reprimand, a military jury ruled early today.

A MAN suspected in the killings of five women was arrested peacefully outside a tyre store, ending a months-long manhunt in a case that terrified women across Louisiana in the United States.