Firefighters tackled a giant blaze fuelled by 5,600 tons of rubber at the Port of Savannah in Georgia, USA, where a towering column of black smoke could be seen from miles away.

Supporters of American death row inmate Troy Davis in the US and Europe tried just about anything to spare him from lethal injection tonight for killing a Georgia policeman, a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit.

Police searched the Georgia home of a 53-year-old man accused of attempted to stalk Miley Cyrus during the filming of the teenager’s new movie.