Argentina squared off with a group of US hedge funds in a court case that has the potential to unravel its deals over the past decade to emerge from a $100bn (€76bn) pile of bad national debt.

Gay couples celebrated today after a judge overturned California’s same-sex-marriage ban.

SUPREME Court judges are to rule if millions of US schoolchildren should continue pledging allegiance to one nation “under God”.

THE Supreme Court will hear its first case arising from the American government’s anti-terrorism campaign following the September 11 attacks, agreeing yesterday to consider whether foreigners held at a Navy base in Cuba should have access to American courts.