John McCain called for the first face-to-face debate of the US election to be postponed after both presidential candidates urged Americans to come together to solve the financial crisis.

Former wrestler Hulk Hogan and his daughter Brooke were involved in a car crash in Florida on Sunday afternoon.

The decorated bathroom door from Jim Morrison's childhood home has been removed from auction website eBay.com a day after going under the hammer.

Mourners began gathering today for the funeral of Evel Knievel, the motorcycle daredevil whose death-defying stunts and near fatal crashes made him an international icon and helped put his mining hometown on the map.

Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has spoken out about his teenage son's recent car wreck, admitting tearfully he felt sure no one had survived the crash.

Convicted US sniper Lee Boyd Malvo told authorities that he and John Allen Muhammad were responsible for four additional shootings that had not been publicly linked to them before, according to a published report.

TERRI Schiavo’s husband buried her cremated remains, inscribing on her bronze grave marker “I kept my promise”.

Terri Schiavo’s husband buried her cremated remains, inscribing on her bronze grave marker: “I kept my promise.”

Authorities in Chicago painted over a yellow and white stain on a concrete wall of an expressway underpass that some believed was an image of the Virgin Mary after it was defaced, police said today. A man was arrested for the alleged vandalism.

The death of Terri Schiavo, who died after being in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, was met with an outpouring of grief in the US tonight.

A state judge in Clearwater, Florida, today rejected another attempt by Terri Schiavo’s parents to have her feeding tube reconnected, rejecting what the couple’s lawyer described as their last chance to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive.

Victims of the September 11 terror attacks were mourned worldwide today, but in the Middle East, Arabs said Washington’s support for Israel and the war on terror that began in the aftermath of the World Trade Center’s collapse only fuelled anger and violence.