Police and a community group have warned homeless people in California not to sleep alone on the streets because a serial killer has already murdered three of them.

More residents of Southern California have been urged to leave their homes despite calming winds that allowed a major aerial attack on wildfires.

Five people were found dead, three of them children, in what appeared to be a murder-suicide in a home across the street from the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, police said today.

Food group IAWS has released interim results for the half year to January 31, 2004.