SERENA WILLIAMS earned her ninth grand slam title by winning the US Open final then claimed she was the hardest working woman in tennis.

RAFAEL NADAL hit back from a set down against Mardy Fish to secure a place in the semi-finals of the US Open for the first time.

Tropical Storm Hanna knocked out power to the southern Bahamas and authorities from Nassau to South Carolina warned residents to prepare for evacuation as it moved north, growing into a hurricane.

Haitian families scrambled on to rooftops and screamed for help today in a city flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, as United Nations peacekeepers and rescue convoys tried in vain to reach them.