American soldiers in Afghanistan desecrated the bodies of Taliban fighters by burning them, violating Islamic tradition, then taunted a nearby village about the act, an Australian television network reported today.

More than two million people were told to flee from the path of 110 mph Hurricane Charley as it roared toward Florida’s west coast tonight.

Around a million residents and tourists have been warned to leave parts of Florida over fears that Tampa and other parts of the west coast could be submerged by the massive storm surge when Hurricane Charley strikes the state’s central gulf coast today.

The “day of reckoning” for Saddam Hussein is getting closer, President George Bush said today.

A US Air Force MC-130P transport plane has crashed in a remote region of Afghanistan, injuring all eight crew members on board.

The 15-year-old student pilot who crashed a small plane into a Florida skyscraper wrote a note expressing sympathy for Osama bin Laden and support for the September 11 terrorist attacks, police said.

A US Army soldier who was critically injured when trapped between two trucks tonight become the first official US casualty of Operation Enduring Freedom, the campaign against terrorism, officials said.