Size: Sq m 184 (2,000 sq ft)

Federal prosecutors will ask for a 27-year prison sentence for a Massachusetts man who authorities say had a dungeon in his basement and chatted online with other men about their mutual desire to abduct, kill and eat children.

IN Claxton, Georgia, USA, the annual rattlesnake roundup is being transformed into a “rattlesnake and wildlife festival”.

STANDING at the southern most point of the USA, in Key West Florida, the realisation set in that we had finally run out of road.

WE are paddling gently through the Florida Everglades backcountry swamps on a sun-drenched early June morning.

BP engineers finally succeeded in keeping some of the oil gushing from a blown well out of the Gulf of Mexico, hooking up a mile-long tube to funnel it into a tanker after more than three weeks of failures.

A woman is in a critical condition in hospital after being hit by a lorry in Derry.

A PET Burmese python measuring more than 8ft long broke out of a terrarium and strangled a two-year-old girl in her bedroom at a central Florida home, authorities said.

A murderer who dumped a five-year-old girl in alligator-infested waters where she was eaten alive has been sentenced to death.

Alligators have clashed with pythons before in Florida’s Everglades National Park. But when two of the reptiles clashed recently , the result was not pretty.

THREE medical students were detained yesterday and a major US road was shut for over 12 hours after a woman overheard a suspected terror plot being discussed.

A French tourist who said she did not know she was pregnant gave birth on a tour bus while on holiday in Florida.