A man who teaches classes on the outdoors is in hospital after he was mauled by a bear during a mountaineering lesson in the Alaska Panhandle.

Today a dog race begins at the top of the world in mind-numbingly freezing conditions, writes Jo Kerrigan.

USA: The whiff of a Whopper made hundreds of customers hungry for a Burger King special — “Flame Grilled” cologne.

Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her unmarried teenage daughter who announced her pregnancy as her mother became the Republican vice-presidential candidate gave a frank TV interview about the issue.