Liam Neeson is too old to play Abraham Lincoln.

Washington sniper John Muhammad will be sentenced in Maryland today, after being convicted of another six killings.

A soaring rendition of The Lord’s Prayer moved thousands of mourners at the funeral of US civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks today, with a preacher bidding: “Mother Parks, take your rest.”

Rosa Parks’ body has been returned to the city she called home, with thousands waiting in a line more to pay their final respects to the US civil rights leader.

ROSA PARKS, the seamstress whose act of defiance on a public bus a half-century ago helped spark the US civil rights movement, will join presidents and war heroes who have been honoured in death with a public viewing in the Capitol Rotunda.

NEARLY 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on an Alabama, bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.

Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern US civil rights movement, died at age 92.

US President George Bush was given special treatment to avoid being sent to war in Vietnam as a young man, it was claimed today.

The White House released a copy of a dental examination that President George Bush had in the National Guard in Alabama during the Vietnam War to rebut suggestions made by Democrats who have questioned whether the president ever showed up for duty there.

The US Supreme Court refused yesterday to intervene in a lawsuit over the hit song Rosa Parks by the Grammy-winning rap group OutKast.

A woman killed outside an Alabama liquor store the month before the Washington-area sniper spree probably died from a shot from a high-powered rifle, a witness testified yesterday.

Authorities have linked yet another shooting to the sniper suspects – the wounding of a Maryland store clerk more than two weeks before a string of attacks began terrorising the Washington area.

Police have issued new murder warrants for the suspected Washington serial snipers after they were linked to an earlier killing in Louisiana.

The two men arrested in connection with the Washington shootings were tracked down from a clue in one of the sniper's phone calls, according to reports.

AMERICA paused yesterday to remember the unforgettable — with the tolling of bells, recitations of the names of the dead, and above all, with silence. “Today, we remember each life,” said President Bush.

A US military tanker plane crashed into a mountain in Pakistan, killing seven marines, the Pentagon said. It was the worst US casualty toll of the Afghanistan campaign.

The famed civil rights organisation founded by Martin Luther King is threatening to fire his son as president for failing to breathe new life into the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.