With over a dozen people already dead and rivers still rising in parts of the US, there are fears many communities could flood again.

DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee John Kerry launched one of his harshest broadsides against the Iraq war yesterday and drew an angry response from President George W Bush, in a clash that overshadowed their attempts to focus on the economy.

Former US president Bill Clinton is recovering today from a quadruple heart bypass operation to relieve severely clogged arteries that doctors said had put him in danger of an imminent major heart attack.