Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of the little Louisiana town of Jena in America's Deep South today in support of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.

Controversial film-maker Michael Moore has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush's handling of the relief operation to rescue Hurricane Katrina survivors in America's Deep South.

TRIBUTES from around the world flooded into an book of condolence set up on the internet to mourn the deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.