THIS is a story of how you can recover after your worst nightmare. It’s the story of a mother whose three children died. Madonna Badger, 49, was an art director, for people like Calvin Klein, and owned a successful company in New York.

A violent weather system that claimed 12 lives in Oklahoma and Arkansas amid tornadoes and flash floods gave way to clearing skies as the storms trekked toward the US east coast today.

FLASH FLOODS swept through campsites in an Arkansas national forest yesterday, killing at least 16 people, police said, as a massive rescue operation was launched in the rugged mountainous area.

Foreign countries including Saudi Arabia gave millions to former President Bill Clinton’s charity at a time when his wife Hillary was serving her first year as secretary of state, records released today show.

A man with an extensive criminal past whose 95-year prison sentence was commuted nearly a decade ago was sought today after four police officers were gunned down in a US coffee shop.

CARL FROCH is expecting a knockout victory over Jermain Taylor in Connecticut tonight.

Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones are offering internet viewers lurid details of encounters they claim they had with former US president Bill Clinton for £1 (€1.2) a pop.

John McCain will win New York and all of the state's 101 Republican delegates, CNN projected.

Phil Mickelson will compete in the EDS Byron Nelson Championship today despite missing yesterday’s pre-tournament pro-am.

Tiger Woods today made his first public appearance since the death of his father Earl four weeks ago.

In one instant, Rickey May thought a bomb had gone off outside his home. In the next, he realised a car had crashed through his home’s brick wall and landed on top of him in his bed.

Renee Zellweger has stunned Hollywood by marrying her country sweetheart Kenny Chesney.

Fire ripped through a mobile home in a hamlet outside Little Rock, Arkansas, killing at least six people, including five children.

Police have recovered a suitcase of Beatles memorabilia which was stolen from George Harrison's sister.

Former US President Bill Clinton is to undergo heart bypass surgery after complaining of mild chest pain and shortness of breath.

Amy Lee of the Grammy-winning rock band Evanescence has returned home for the final show of the band's latest tour.

US President George W Bush’s re-election campaign commercials have angered several relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks.

Rebels fired a rocket tonight at the headquarters of the US-led coalition after gunmen killed seven Iraqi policemen in attacks west of Baghdad.

Animal testing laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences today said it was steadily recovering from a wave of animal rights protests earlier this year.

An American charity is trying to raise 250,000 dollars (£176,000) to help British farmers hit by the foot-and-mouth outbreak.

A court in the US has ruled that the twins adopted by Judith and Alan Kilshaw over the internet should be returned to America.

Lawyers for a Californian couple in the transatlantic internet twins case face competition in their bid to challenge the Arkansas state adoption of the girls.

A couple who adopted twins on the internet deny they knew of a deliberate attempt to defraud US authorities in order to have the girls.