Millions of people across the north-eastern United States were bracing for Hurricane Sandy as the superstorm picked up speed over the Atlantic.

Flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee is being blamed for two deaths in Pennsylvania and numerous water rescues and road closures around a soggy north-eastern United States.

Internet child porn photos showing a girl being abused were taken at a Walt Disney World hotel in Florida, police said after making a public appeal for tips to figure out the location.

A snowstorm in the north-eastern United States sparked a surge in demand for heating oil and pushed the price of crude to an eight-week high today.

The United Nations was shut down and hundreds of flights were cancelled after a storm dumped 14 inches of snow on New York and in the north-eastern United States.

Snow and freezing rain swept across wide swathes of the north-eastern United States, causing hundreds of traffic accidents in which at least four people died.

Cities across the north-eastern United States and Canada restored power to millions of people today, following the largest blackout in North American history – only to confront a second series of woes in the aftermath of the enormous power cut.

Aer Lingus has said most of its transatlantic flights are operating normally despite the overnight power blackout in the north-eastern United States and Canada.

A power cut struck New York and other cities in the north-eastern United States and Canada tonight.

The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed could help unravel details of past and present terror plots in Southeast Asia, police who once hunted him in Manila said today.

The US immigration service has told agents to inspect baggage belonging to Yemeni citizens for large sums of money, thermos bottles and night-vision goggles, a government official has said.