The death toll from the mudslide that swept through a rural US community has reached 14 as the search for survivors grows to include scores still unaccounted for.

An 11-year-old boy died in the intense heat of America's Death Valley National Park after he and his mother became stranded in one of the world’s most inhospitable areas and survived for several days on bottled water, Pop-Tarts and cheese sandwiches.

NEW ENGLAND Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is expected to miss the rest of the 2008 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, according to a source familiar with the injury.

A leading disease expert has warned that further outbreaks of e.coli are inevitable unless more rigorous hygiene standards are enforced.

INDIANAPOLIS Colts quarterback Peyton Manning provided the fourth-quarter heroics, Santana Moss’s overtime catch won it for the Washington Redskins and the Baltimore Ravens rallied to win the clash of unbeaten teams.

NEW YORK Jets quarterback Chad Pennington dug himself and his team out of a hole in the fourth quarter on Sunday night to hand coach Herman Edwards his first victory of the fledgling NFL season.

THE National Football League’s elite sewed up division titles on Sunday.

THE Tampa Bay Buccaneers have scuppered Atlanta’s hopes of locking up a division title with weeks to spare in the National Football League.

A former US marine, accused of abducting schoolgirl Shevaun Pennington, was ordered to remain in German custody today pending a decision on his extradition to Britain.

SHEVAUN PENNINGTON’S mother wept yesteday as she thanked police for the “team effort” that brought her daughter home.

THE parents of a 12-year-old British girl who ran off with a former US Marine yesterday told of the moment she phoned to say she was coming home.

THE mystery about the whereabouts of missing schoolgirl Shevaun Pennington deepened last night after French police said she only stayed in Paris for a short time before flying back to Britain.

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.

BRAD JOHNSON and Tampa Bay buried San Francisco in the first-half, while Rich Gannon and the Oakland Raiders came on strong against the Jets in the second, and both ended up in the NFL’s divisional finals next week.

OAKLAND and Tennessee captured division NFL titles on Sunday, but the playoff puzzle was still missing plenty of pieces after the penultimate weekend of the gridiron season.

A British political aide killed in an attack with a Samurai sword was probably cowering on the floor, a court has heard.