POLICE in riot gear and biohazard suits removed anti-Wall Street activists from an encampment outside the Los Angeles City Hall, arresting an estimated 200 people.

Renee Zellweger has been in a car crash.

A BOY aged three died after apparently shooting himself in the face with his father’s gun, according to police in the US.

A three-year-old boy died after apparently shooting himself in the face with his father’s gun, according to police in the US.

A US baby sitter was arrested after police said she dangled two young children in front of passing cars and then tried to set their clothes on fire.

A pair of mortar rounds slammed into a football field while young men were playing a game in a Shiite district of Baghdad today, as more than 60 people were killed in attacks nationwide.

AT least two dozen bodies, many bearing signs of torture, were found dumped in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad yesterday, while the government almost doubled the death toll from clashes this week between militiamen and Iraqi forces, saying 73 people had died.

Car bombs and a rocket barrage struck a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad tonight, killing at least 47 people and wounding at least 148.

Masked Shiite gunmen went on a rampage in western Baghdad today, pulling Sunni Arabs from cars and off the street and killing at least 41 people, police said.

An American man described as being devoted to his meticulously kept lawn has been charged with murder over the shooting of a 15-year-old boy who apparently walked across his garden.

A suicide bomber and a huge car bomb ripped apart a market in Baghdad’s Sadr City Shiite slum shortly before dusk today, killing at least 37 and wounding 95.

A SUICIDE bomber detonated an explosive belt yesterday in a line of Iraqis waiting to receive government payments, killing eight people and wounding about 30, including children, police said.

Three suicide car bombings killed 23 people in northern Iraq today, including a top municipal council leader plus a bodyguard of Iraq’s Kurdish deputy prime minister, officials said.

A car bomb exploded inside the headquarters of police in the Iraqi city of Tikrit today, killing at least 10 people, police and witnesses said.

A suicide car bomber killed seven people at a checkpoint at Baghdad’s Green Zone early today, the second attack in two days at the district that houses Iraq’s interim government and foreign embassies, officials said.

Two bodies, one with a severed head, were found early today south of Baghdad, police said.

An Irishman wanted in Massachusetts for stalking and harassing dozens of women by phone may have fled the US.

Someone turned in a valid winning ticket for a near $162m (€127m) lottery jackpot in Ohio today – a day after a woman claimed she lost the ticket outside the store where it was sold.

Rock star and actress Courtney Love was admitted to hospital with a suspected drug overdose yesterday following her arrest for allegedly smashing windows at a friend’s Los Angeles home.

A woman bludgeoned her two children to death with a baseball bat then stepped into the path of a truck in an apparent suicide bid.

DEBRIS from the space shuttle Columbia rained down onto fields, highways and a cemetery in Texas on Saturday, sending dozens of residents to hospitals after they handled the smouldering metal wreckage.

He could have had a nice meal and free ski-lift passes. But a man who tried to get Robert Redford’s autograph as a reward for finding the film star’s lost credit card got a visit from police instead.

Police investigations into the identity of the mystery sniper were stepped up today after a woman was shot and killed outside a shopping centre near Washington DC.

Police closed a 20 mile stretch of road in southern Florida after detaining three men suspected of terrorist activity.