A record heatwave has led to the deaths of 18 people, most of them homeless, leaving officials in Phoenix, Arizona, scrambling to provide water and shelter to the city’s transient population.

US country singer Glen Campbell was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after he left the scene of a minor vehicle accident, police said.

A COUPLE accused of keeping their twin boys locked in filthy makeshift cages for 20 hours a day have been charged with child abuse.

THE Roman Catholic bishop charged with striking a jaywalking pedestrian with his car and then driving away told police he thought he had hit a dog or a cat, or that someone had thrown a rock at his vehicle.