Film star Michael Douglas has a new role on American TV five nights a week.

The curtain has been raised on the first fully assembled Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet to an audience of thousands in the company’s plant in the US.

Moving quietly and solemnly through the moonlight, mourners in Michigan waited for a chance to file past the casket of Gerald Ford, welcoming home the 38th US president for a final time.

Ordinary Americans joined President George Bush and other dignitaries in Washington to pay final respects to Gerald Ford as the former US president’s flag-draped coffin rested under the Capitol dome, before a last round of funeral services and burial near his family home in Michigan.

Peter Jennings, the suave, Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades, has died at age 67.

TOM BROKAW began with a report on US troops in Iraq. He ended the broadcast by saying farewell. After nearly 23 years in the NBC Nightly News anchor chair, Brokaw reminded his viewers that “we’ve been through a lot together, through dark days and nights, and seasons of hope and joy.

Basing their facts on the same presidential election results, US TV networks diverged today in projecting a winner in the key state of Ohio.

AMERICA’S top news networks are determined to prevent a repeat of their 2000 presidential election embarrassment, which saw them declare the wrong winner.

America’s top news networks are determined to prevent a repeat of their 2000 presidential election embarrassment, which saw them declare the wrong winner.

TELEVISION commentators gushed in their first response to John Kerry’s nomination acceptance speech, while warning the address will be parsed in the weeks ahead for what wasn’t said.

Rod Stewart, Antonio Banderas and Donald Duck are among an eclectic bunch who will receive stars on Hollywood‘s Walk of Fame in Los Angeles next year.

Fears were today mounting that the danger to the public from America’s anthrax outbreak was greater than had initially been believed.

Mail to America’s capital was today being put through bacteria-killing irradiation machines, in the first step in a plan to prevent more anthrax attacks.

Three letters contaminated with anthrax all were dated September 11, the same day as the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and contained anti-American and anti-Israel messages, US officials said.

More than 2,000 postal workers were tonight awaiting the results of anthrax tests after a colleague in Washington DC was diagnosed with the most serious form of the infection.

FBI detectives believe they have found the anthrax-laced letter which infected a worker at the New York Post newspaper, it was revealed today.

The anthrax strains surfacing with terrifying impact in Florida, New York and Washington are all similar, Bush administration said indicating a single source.

US officials are today trying to calm mounting anthrax fears after two more cases of the desease were confirmed.

A New York Post employee has contracted skin anthrax, a television station affiliated with the newspaper reported today.

Investigators are trying to track the US anthrax outbreak back to a New Jersey postal carrier who may have handled the envelopes.

The latest victim of anthrax in the US is expected to make a full recovery.

Thirty-one employees of the US Senate tested positive for exposure to a highly concentrated form of anthrax, officials said, prompting congressional leaders to order an unprecedented shutdown of some of their offices.

The latest victim of the American anthrax scare is an Irish-American journalist Erin O'Connor.