ENGLAND: Much-loved TV characters Teletubbies are to say "eh-oh" to a new generation of viewers with a comeback more than a decade after the series ended-

ENGLAND:

The Los Angeles Times was the first to publish a story about yesterday's earthquake in Los Angeles, thanks to a robot writer.

The US government and JPMorgan Chase have agreed a record $13bn settlement over the company’s sales of low quality mortgage-backed securities that collapsed in value during the financial crisis, a source close to the talks has said.

An original Apple computer from 1976 has sold at auction for nearly US$388,000 (€302,110).

Halle Berry claims her daughter is afraid to go to school because of the paparazzi.

The care home company whose employee refused to administer CPR to a dying woman has said the employee wrongly interpreted its policy.

A self-styled Los Angeles entertainment entrepreneur has been charged with conning a woman identified as the ex-wife of actor Eddie Murphy out of $7m.

The US Presbyterian Church has officially ordained a 56-year-old Wisconsin man as its first openly gay minister.

Police in Sacramento, California, have arrested a 29-year-old mother on suspicion of murder and assault resulting in the death of a child, after an investigation found her baby probably died from burns suffered in a microwave oven.

Passengers on a US flight which made an emergency landing at a military base after a sudden drop in cabin pressure took dramatic pictures of a hole in the aircraft.

An air traffic controller and a supervisor have been suspended after a young boy was allowed to give directions to pilots at New York’s JFK Airport.

A Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate US President Gerald Ford was freed from prison today after 34 years behind bars.

THE Charles Manson follower convicted of attempting to assassinate US president Gerald Ford will be released from a Texas prison later this month after serving more than 30 years behind bars.

Twenty-four people were injured, three of them seriously, when when a carnival ride carrying mostly children collapsed at an annual fair early today.

Kanye West has begged concert-goers at his recent Sacramento, California gig for forgiveness, after he gave a shout out to the city during his show - but accidentally called out "Seattle".

Tributes were tonight paid to a dedicated missionary killed in a road crash in Co Tipperary.

Justin Timberlake has had to postpone some live shows after being ordered to rest his voice.

A BIBLE camp counsellor and a boy scout leader were among 125 people arrested across the US in an internet child pornography case in which subscribers purchased photos and videos of children engaged in sex acts with adults, federal authorities have announced.

Charles Manson's followers should never be freed from prison for the string of brutal murders they committed in 1969, the sister of murdered actress Sharon Tate said.

AN Oregon man who used an internet chat room to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine’s Day had been trying to persuade women for at least five years to engage in sex acts with him and then kill themselves, a sheriff said.

Vanitta Kinard’s story is just one of triumph over adversity at the US Olympic trials, reports Simon Lewis.

America’s track golden girls are looking forward to a glittering Olympics after they showed their younger rivals at the US team trials they still have what it takes to be in the medal hunt.

America’s sprinters have sent a message to the rest of the world from the US Olympic trials: You have no chance in Athens.

Marion Jones will not be defending her Olympic 100 metres title in Athens next month after failing to make the American team at the US trials in Sacramento, California.

The most powerful nation in world athletics tonight began its search for a team to take on the best of the rest at the Athens Olympics next month.

TIM MONTGOMERY’S lawyer, Cristina Arguedas, yesterday said the world number one will fight any attempt to ban him from the Olympics after it was revealed the sprinter had been notified by the US Anti-Doping Agency that he has been reported for drug violations.

Tim Montgomery’s lawyer, Cristina Arguedas, has stated that the world number one will fight any attempt to ban him from the Olympics after it was revealed the sprinter had been notified by the US Anti-Doping Agency that he has been reported for drug violations.

Biotechnology companies are quietly pushing to splice more human genes into food crops after the practice was nearly abandoned last year, a Washington-based advocacy group says.

SUPREME Court judges are to rule if millions of US schoolchildren should continue pledging allegiance to one nation “under God”.

THE US administration is more concerned with monopolising global food production than combating famine, MEP Patricia McKenna said yesterday.

An agriculture conference at which US officials will tell of advances in genetically engineered agriculture was getting under way today – after hundreds of protesters took to the streets.

US newspaper heiress turned actress Patty Hearst said that Sara Jane Olson and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army charged with murder in a 1970s bank robbery had their ‘‘own little jihad’’ going, adding that she is ready and willing to testify against them.

A former security guard wanted for murdering five people in a shooting spree over the weekend killed himself today during a shoot-out with US police.

A 27-year-old man stabbed his pregnant wife to death and then drove 10 miles and killed four more relatives before fleeing with his three-year-old son.