A 24-year-old man was convicted of killing three women and a teenage girl in northern British Columbia, making him one of Canada’s youngest serial killers.

IF YOU’RE thinking Canada’s west coast, for once don’t do the predictable things. Break away from the crowd. Hire a car.

More than two million people across the eastern US lost power after violent storms and five people died, including a 90-year-old woman asleep in bed when a tree slammed into her home, police have said.