The remnants of Hurricane Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into Houston on Sunday as rising water led thousands of people to seek higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers.

Rising floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey sent thousands of people scrambling on to rooftops or higher ground in Houston, overwhelming rescuers who fielded countless desperate calls for help.

One-fearsome hurricane Harvey has spun deeper into Texas, unloading extraordinary amounts of rain after crashing into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.

US technology companies are bringing automation and robotics to the age-old task of battling mosquitoes in a bid to halt the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne maladies worldwide.

A whisky every evening is the key to a long life, according to Britain's oldest living Olympian who is celebrating his 100th birthday.

A woman who previously dated the man accused of fatally shooting her, her husband and six children texted her mother before her death that she was being held at gunpoint.

A woman who previously dated the man accused of fatally shooting her, her husband and six children had texted her mother before her death that she was being held at gunpoint.

Two teenage boys were hoping to make a deal with the devil when they sexually assaulted and killed a 15-year-old girl in a satanic ritual, a prosecutor said.

A Mexican national was executed in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the US State Department to halt the punishment.

A community college student who said he had fantasised since childhood about stabbing people to death went on a slashing spree at his Houston, Texas campus.

Investigators found that the operator of a Texas home day care centre where a fire killed four children had left the youngsters in her care alone to go shopping, according to a court document.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Texas were today ordered to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Ike.

A WOMAN who took in a family recovering from Hurricane Katrina has been arrested and charged with kidnapping after authorities said she refused to return five children to their mother and went on the run with them for a month.

A 19-YEAR-OLD Texas A&M University student was killed by her ex-boyfriend, who then dismembered and burned her body on a patio grill, authorities said at the weekend.

The pace of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina has slowed, leaving some Gulf Coast areas with less than half the people they had before the storm.

Prosecutors rested their case after showing how Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bath, but US defence lawyers say Yates had severe postpartum psychosis and did not know the drownings were wrong.

A death row inmate escaped from a county jail in Texas after he obtained civilian clothing and a fake ID badge, authorities said.

Traffic came to a standstill and petrol shortages were reported today as hundreds of thousands of people in the Houston metropolitan area rushed to get out of the path of Hurricane Rita, a monster storm with 170mph winds.

A condemned woman inmate lost before the Texas parole board and a federal court as her lawyers tried to stop her scheduled execution.

A convicted killer was executed, even though the handling of his case by Houston’s troubled police laboratory had been called into question by two state senators and the police chief himself.

A man who said Mel Gibson's film The Passion Of The Christ prompted him to confess to strangling his girlfriend has pleaded guilty to murder.

A man was beginning a life sentence in the United States today after he admitted kidnapping and murdering a 67-year-old Irish nun.

Two teenage girls are “divorcing” their mother because they claim her lesbian affairs clash with their devout Christian beliefs.

Prosecutors are to seek the death penalty against a Texan mother accused of drowning her five children in a bath.