There was more than one storyline playing out on the US stock market today.

US public schools in Jackson, Mississippi, will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline.

Dozens of people have been arrested in the United States after after a day of protests in cities around the world where tens of thousands gathered to rally against what they see as corporate greed.

At least 85 people have died as storms devastated parts of the southern US.

BP will today try to cap the massive oil leak which is still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Nine people including at least six children have died in a fire at an apartment block complex in the US.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain urged his party “to act as Americans, not as Republicans” and suspended most of his party’s national convention as Hurricane Gustav approached the US Gulf coast.

The Illinois senator is favoured to win in today’s nominating race, writes John Dunbar

A REPUTED member of white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan, has been found guilty in the US of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers.