FACEBOOK Inc’s plan to relocate its main US base to Menlo Park, California, may result in $366 million (€274m) in new temporary construction spending in the surrounding area.

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says his sagging trousers cost him a seat on a Southwest Airlines flight.

A quarter of the homes burned in an enormous blaze sparked after a gas line ruptured are still too hot to search for victims, fire officials said tonight.

A massive blast triggered by a suspected gas leak killed at least four people and destroyed more than 50 houses in a neighbourhood near San Francisco today.