Professional wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife and smothered his seven-year-old son before hanging himself in his weight room, near Atlanta, Georgia, a law enforcement official close to the investigation said.

Investigators in Kentucky, probing a weekend plane crash in which 49 people were killed, were today trying to determine why the commuter aircraft used a runway that was too short for take-off.

A commuter jet was on the wrong runway when it crashed just after take-off today and burst into flames, killing 49 people and leaving the lone survivor – a co-pilot – in a critical condition.

Dozens of people died today when a passenger plane crashed into a field after take-off.

A 15-year-old American girl and her ex-girlfriend pleaded guilty today to stabbing her grandparents to death last summer so the young couple could be together.