A woman who unexpectedly gave birth on a cruise ship months before her due date says she wrapped towels around the 680g baby boy and, against all odds, she and medical staff managed to keep him alive until they reached port.

A US congressman has had to apologise to his Christian constituents after being caught swimming naked in the holy Sea of Galilee while on a fact-finding mission to Israel.

A man cleaning his muzzle-loading rifle accidentally shot and killed a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a horse-drawn buggy more than a mile away, an Ohio sheriff says.

A MAN suspected in the killings of five women was arrested peacefully outside a tyre store, ending a months-long manhunt in a case that terrified women across Louisiana in the United States.

US POLICE and the FBI are scouring the country for a man accused of murdering five women in southern Louisiana after a DNA dragnet linked him to one of the slayings.