ENGLAND: Joe Johnson has revealed his video of his snooker World Championship triumph was lost — when one of his sons taped a He-Man film over it.

JOE LANSDALE’S Paradise Sky is a fictionalised account of the life of Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick, one of the Wild West’s most fascinating outlaws. 

A tornado hit a tiny town in Illinois state, killing one person, injuring seven and sweeping homes off their foundations as a large storm system swept across a large swathe of the US.

IT’S hard to avoid this repeated hand wringing about the NFL and its inability to stay opaque in our overwhelmingly transparent era of journalism.

American football player Adrian Peterson has been indicted in Texas on a charge of child abuse after using a branch to discipline his son.

 DIAMOND DOG COUGHS UP MISSING WEDDING RING 

BRAZIL: The animal oracle predictions for the World Cup are well under way, with host nation Brazil getting a vote of confidence from its chosen turtle tipster.

A 34-year-old woman posed as a teenager to enrol at a private Texas high school.

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A former Texas nurse convicted of killing five dialysis patients by injecting them with bleach should spend the rest of her life in prison with no chance of parole, jurors who earlier convicted the woman of capital murder said.

A second straight night of storms has ripped through northern Arkansas, taking the death toll to 11.

A JUDGE has ordered former US House majority leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.

The fireball that blazed across the Texas sky and sparked numerous weekend calls to police was an identified flying object, it emerged today.

ANXIOUS evacuees across America clamoured to come home yesterday after their city was largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, but Mayor Ray Nagin warned they may have to wait in shelters and motels a few days longer.

Mayor Ray Nagin has ordered a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, directing residents of a city still recovering from the devastation left behind three years ago from Hurricane Katrina to flee from the approaching Hurricane Gustav.

Former president Bill Clinton swept through deep east Texas in a bid to help his wife get her campaign for the Democratic Party’s nomination back on track.

FORMER president Bill Clinton said Democratic voters who support Barack Obama over his wife are missing out on an opportunity to back a universal health care system.

A RELATIVE found the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and her four small daughters hanging in a closet in their mobile home yesterday morning, all of them dead but an eight-month-old, who was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said.

The damage inflicted by Hurricane Rita paled in comparison to Katrina, Texas Governor Rick Perry said today – but urged evacuees to stay where they are until local officials say it’s all right to return.

Residents along the Texas and Louisiana coasts began clearing away debris today as crews worked to restore electricity to more than one million customers in four states after Hurricane Rita tore through the US Gulf Coast, causing less damage than feared.

Three million Americans evacuated before Hurricane Rita pummelled east Texas and the Louisiana coast, were urged not to hurry home today.

A mentally ill killer was executed in Texas after the state governor Rick Perry rejected a parole board’s highly unusual recommendation to commute his death sentence or delay the execution.

Willie Nelson has a new album, but it's not country and is only available from the Internet or a US restaurant chain.

NASA workers and supporters of the US space programme gathered at Cape Canaveral in Florida today to mark the first anniversary of the Columbia catastrophe that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

A carer saved a disabled doctor’s life in the United States when she carried him out of his blazing home after it was hit by a light aircraft.

US investigators probing the events that brought down space shuttle Columbia and killed seven astronauts are close to completing a rough draft of their final report.

The final moments of the lives of the crew of the doomed shuttle Columbia’s that were captured on video and are to be released tonight.

Just two days before Columbia’s mysterious break-up during its fiery descent, a safety engineer warned by e-mail about risks of “catastrophic” failures from extreme heat causing the shuttle’s tyres to burst inside the spacecraft, Nasa has disclosed.

CREWS combed suburban gardens and remote Texas woodlands for the remains of space shuttle Columbia yesterday as experts focused on a heat surge on the left side of the doomed spacecraft in the early investigation of why it disintegrated.

Hundreds of airline crash experts, engineers and forensic scientists have converged on Texas and Louisiana to help retrieve pieces of the space shuttle Columbia.

Charred human remains have been found among the debris from the stricken space shuttle Columbia.

Actor Bill Paxton didn't want anyone but himself to direct him in the Gothic drama Frailty.