FBI agents learned three weeks in advance that OJ Simpson and a memorabilia dealer planned an operation to retrieve personal items that Simpson claimed were stolen from him, according to reports.

A woman faces charges after a US baggage search found a human skull with teeth, hair and skin in her luggage at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison identified Lynndie England as one of the soldiers who abused them, an army investigator testified today.

A man was in custody today after being restrained by a flight crew when he approached the cockpit of an American aircraft.

The FBI is to join the investigation into the Najaf mosque bombing after the provincial governor called for US help over the explosion at Iraq’s holiest Shiite Muslim shrine that killed 125 people.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man early today believed to be Eric Rudolph, the fugitive charged with the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and in bomb attacks at a gay nightclub and an abortion clinic, the FBI said.

The FBI have widened the search for seven men who escaped from a Texas prison in what has become the state's biggest-ever manhunt.