Mourners have started paying their final respects to six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at a Sikh temple in the US almost a week ago.

Thousands of mourners are expected to gather today to pay their final respects to the six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at their Sikh temple over the weekend in the central US state of Wisconsin.

AGENTS of the Iranian government were last night accused of being involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, with help from a purported member of a Mexican drug cartel.

WIKILEAKS’ editor-in-chief claims his organisation doesn’t know who sent it some 91,000 secret US military documents, telling journalists that the website was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.

US FEDERAL authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the BP oil spill disaster.

The Times Square bomber was arrested at the last minute as his flight out of America taxied to the runway, police revealed today.

A suspect has today been taken into custody in connection with the recent failed Times Square car bomb attack.

The US government has launched a criminal investigation into CIA interrogations as a declassified report revealed threats to kill a suspect’s children and the use of an electric drill to scare another detainee.

US Attorney General Eric Holder said today there may be 50 or more trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees as the Obama administration works to shut the US detention centre by early next year.