A volunteer firefighter, badly burned in a 2001 blaze, has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck.

Hundreds of officers outside the church where a funeral was being held for a policeman killed along with his partner in an ambush shooting turned their backs on New York’s mayor as he spoke during the service.

Heath Ledger and his fiancee Michelle Williams are struggling to get peace and quiet, after a New York City newspaper printed the name of the Brooklyn street that they live on.