Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, has died at the age of 94.

The NFL have agreed to pay $765m to ex-players suffering the effects of concussion — but have not admitted liability.

Seventy-one people were shot in the Colorado cinema during midnight screenings of the new Batman movie, police said.

Police have released a written statement from the family of the man arrested after today's shooting at a crowded Colorado cinema.

The man arrested in connection with today's fatal shootings in a Colorado cinema has been named by police as local man James Holmes.

Folk music legend Pete Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest on Friday night, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people in New York City’s Upper West Side past banks and department stores.

THE French have a saying that the more things change the more they stay the same. This weekend thousands of young people will flock to the Oxegen music festival at Punchestown, but unlike some such gatherings elsewhere, it does not seem to have any real focus of protest.