Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston yesterday as it re-opened to worshippers just days after a 21-year-old white gunman shot dead nine black church members.

POLICE agreed to hand over 80 new pieces of evidence about Madeleine McCann’s disappearance to her parents.

Chemicals and Dulux paint group ICI said today its finance director had collapsed and died in the United States.

SHARES in Dulux paint owner Imperial Chemical Industries Plc surged nearly 19% on Thursday, after the firm said it was cutting a further 1,410 jobs and reported better-than-expected first-half profits.

A globe-trotting cat survived a six-week journey from Hong Kong to Britain inside a shipping container by lapping condensation from the walls, the RSPCA said today.