THE man who shot and paralysed Alabama Governor George Wallace during a 1972 presidential campaign stop in Maryland was released from prison yesterday after serving 35 years of his sentence.

Nasa scientists hope the third time is the charm for its $700m (€578.7m) unmanned mission to Pluto.

Nasa scrubbed its launch of an unmanned spacecraft on a nine-year voyage to Pluto for the second day in a row today, but this time weather in Maryland was to blame.