Fashion house Burberry today announced a 7% rise in total third-quarter revenues, but said UK trading was disappointing.

EARLY voting for the US presidential election began in Florida yesterday as activists urged people to opt for early ballots to avoid a repeat of the 2000 election fiasco, but computer problems and queues soon emerged.

Jeanne, Florida’s fourth hurricane in six weeks, piled on destruction in already ravaged areas, slicing across the state with howling wind that rocketed debris from earlier storms and torrents of rain that turned streets into rivers.

US officials have seized 19 bodies at an illegal crematorium and arrested the operator, who is already under investigation for a scheme in which mortuary students allegedly embalmed corpses without the consent of family members.

The antibiotic Cipro has gone from relative obscurity to part of America’s new vocabulary in less than two weeks.

The FBI says it hasn't found any more anthrax bacteria in American Media's Florida offices.

US investigators have found no further sign of anthrax in the office of a man killed by the disease since traces were found on his computer keyboard and in the nose of a co-worker, health officials said.

Reports say a third office employee in Florida was exposed to anthrax.

Authorities in Florida say there's virtually no chance the anthrax death of a British-born journalist was accidental.

The FBI is investigating the death of a journalist in Florida after he was exposed to the anthrax disease at his workplace.