BEFORE he called the emergency services, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the “stuck” accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn’t move.

Rapper Lil Wayne will go on trial in the US next year on drug possession and weapons charges.

Glenn McGinnis hikes up a dusty ridge off Interstate 8 near Wellton, Arizona, to show off a barren patch of scrubland that may become home to a rarity: the first US oil refinery to be built in almost three decades.

Six people were killed and 31 injured when a van carrying illegal immigrants smashed head-on into two other vehicles as it went the wrong way on an US interstate with its headlights off.

The Californian wildfire that has destroyed four homes and forced hundreds of people to leave their homes near San Diego was started by a cigarette