Hurricane Gustav weakened slightly to a Category 2 storm as it headed towards New Orleans today, the US National Hurricane Centre said.

Rescuers in Tennessee have dubbed the discovery of an 11-month-old boy alive in the debris left by a tornado a miracle.

Strong performances from Irish golfers Gareth Shaw and Seamus Power helped drive East Tennessee State University into America’s top 10 team rankings this week.

A magnitude-4.2 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area, rattling residents’ nerves but causing no major damage or injuries.

Hurricane Rita poured more water into New Orleans for a second day today and inundated fishing villages along Louisiana’s coast, where dozens of people were rescued from homes swamped by up to 6 feet of water.

HURRICANE Rita's rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee yesterday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighbourhoods in a repeat of New Orleans's flooding nightmare.

US POLICE and the FBI are scouring the country for a man accused of murdering five women in southern Louisiana after a DNA dragnet linked him to one of the slayings.

History teacher Ken Senter has a plan to capture the horror of the September 11 terrorist attacks for his students in Tennessee. He’ll take them outside.

An 800-acre fire in central Florida has closed five major Orlando highways and contributed to a nine-car crash on the Florida Turnpike. No serious injuries were reported.