A woman who tried to sell a rare hunk of moon rock for $1.7m (€1.2m) was detained when her prospective customer turned out to be an undercover Nasa investigator, officials said.

A deadly wildfire destroyed dozens of homes as it roared through a tinder-dry Southern California forest, forced thousands of residents to flee and burned dangerously close to a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex.

Fugitive murder suspect Ryan Jenkins has been found dead in a motel from an apparent suicide, Canadian police said today.

FIVE orphaned siblings who moved into a new dream home on the American hit television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition are suing the ABC network, the company that built the house and the couple who took them in after their parents died.

Police have arrested two people for making purchases with money and account numbers found in the lost wallet of Hollywood star Tony Curtis.