A light aircraft crashed and burned shortly after take-off, killing everyone on board, including the pilot and nine people who had spent the day working at a skin cancer clinic in a remote community.

A twin-engine plane crashed near an airport not far from Arches National Park in south-eastern Utah in the US, killing all 10 people on board, an official said today.

An exhaust centre shop owner who deliberately damaged buildings as he tore through town in an armoured bulldozer has been surrounded by officers determined to extricate him from the vehicle.

A businessman involved in a planning row barricaded himself inside a metal-fortified bulldozer and went on a rampage through a Colorado mountain town, firing gunshots and knocking down buildings.