The list of West Virginia customers being asked to avoid using water is growing because of a chemical spill into the Elk River in Charleston.

Snow began to fall as a massive blizzard headed for the US north-east today, sending residents hurrying to stock up on food and supplies.

A crowd including university maths students and construction workers were hailed heroes in the US after lifting a flaming car off a motorcyclist pinned underneath.

An Air France plane had to make an emergency landing in the US half an hour after taking off, officials said today.

Fighter jets escorted a London-to-Washington, D.C., flight to Boston’s Logan airport today after the pilot declared an emergency because an apparently claustrophobic passenger caused a disturbance, a federal official said.

Five firefighters were injured battling a blaze aboard a British Airways plane early today.

CHILLING radio transmissions by the September 11 hijackers from the planes they commandeered were played for the first time yesterday.

Chilling radio transmissions by the September 11 hijackers from the planes they commandeered were played for the first time today.

SOME schools stayed closed yesterday and airlines struggled to catch up as the US north-east plowed out after the powerful weekend snowstorm that piled snow nearly four feet deep in places.

Two brothers who targeted elderly people to rob were jailed for a total of 27 years today for the killing of an 81-year-old bachelor farmer who was beaten to death for £45.

The head of security at Boston’s Logan Airport is being ousted, three weeks after terrorists crashed two planes hijacked from the airport into the World Trade Centre, an official in the Massachusetts governor’s office said.