The 2012 World Series concluded with an 89-mph fastball over the middle of the plate, the sort of pitch that ends up over outfield fences as often as it does in catcher’s mitts.

It may be a bone of contention, but even four-legged actors can get awards in Tinseltown - and six top dogs duly collected prizes at the inaugural Golden Collar Awards.

A rapidly-spreading US wildfire forced the evacuation of nearly 200 homes in Montana, while nursing home residents in Washington state were evacuated because of smoke from a nearby blaze.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested on charges of murdering his father, stepmother and stepsister after their bodies were found at a ranch in New Mexico.

Writer-director Rebecca Miller comes up with another excellent film, adapting from her own collection of short stories, in which we are taken on a journey into the core of three American women at a critical moment in their lives (about to leave their current partners).