The teenager who survived a small plane crash in Washington’s Cascade Mountains says she burned herself trying to pull her step-grandparents from the burning wreckage.

US police arrested a man they believe is connected to the killings of nine women dating back to 1986, based on a DNA sample he provided just last week.

EIGHT people were killed and dozens injured yesterday when a speeding car with an 86-year-old man at the wheel veered out of control and ploughed through a crowded street market in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica.

An investigation was today taking place into how an Amtrak train carrying 210 people from Chicago to California derailed in rural Iowa, killing an elderly woman and injuring 96 others.