FIREFIGHTERS made more progress yesterday against a giant wildfire that has ravaged a national forest north of Los Angeles, with another day of co-operative weather a big help to beleaguered fire crews.

A GROWING wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles surged north yesterday, forcing more evacuations and threatening some 10,000 homes.

A wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles has surged in every direction, going in a single day from a modest threat to a danger to some 10,000 homes.

Homer Stewart, an early pioneer of rocket research who helped develop the first successful US satellite, Explorer I, has died aged 91.

Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police officers led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has been arrested on charges of exposing himself.