A man was killed after a shark tore off his legs while he was surfing off Australia’s east coast, not far from the area where another surfer was mauled by a shark a day earlier.

A man was killed after a shark tore off his legs while he was surfing off Australia’s east coast, not far from the area where another surfer was mauled by a shark a day earlier.

Hurricane Ivan slammed into Cuba’s sparsely populated western tip with the worst of its 160mph (257kph) eyewall, strengthened to a storm of catastrophic strength after it smashed giant waves on to Grand Cayman island and readied to attack the Gulf of Mexico and US oil interests.

Australian police have dropped a malicious damage charge against Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin.

Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, has asked Australian police to drop a charge that he damaged a photographer’s car in the eastern resort town of Byron Bay in July.