The Church of England has given archaeologists permission to dig under a church and remove DNA from a 400-year-old body to determine if America’s Jamestown settlement’s founder was buried under the 17th-century fort.

Nearly a million people were without electricity on America’s east coast tonight as hurricane Isabel slammed ashore.

President George Bush today led hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from the path of hurricane Isabel as it bore down on America’s east coast.

Hurricane Isabel is closing in on the North Carolina coast with 105 mph winds and the potential for up to a foot of rain, threatening to cause ruinous flooding across the region.