A Haitian woman was sentenced yesterday to two years of probation for carrying a human skull in her luggage into the US.

A Turkish Airlines flight skidded off a runway at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport early today, after a record-breaking storm buried sections of north-eastern America under more than two feet of snow.

A woman faces charges after a US baggage search found a human skull with teeth, hair and skin in her luggage at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Investigators hope to recover the fuselage of a sunken seaplane to find why it broke apart and plunged into the ocean just off Miami Beach, killing all 20 people on board including three infants.

A propeller-driven seaplane carrying 20 people crashed just off Miami Beach within sight of the city’s high-rises, killing at least 19 of those aboard, authorities said.