The 20-year-old man charged over the shooting of two US police officers had been at the protest earlier that night.

Two police officers shot amid protests in Ferguson — the Missouri city that has become a symbol of tensions between police and black Americans — have been released from hospital.

Lawyers for the parents of an unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a white police officer in a St Louis suburb plan to file a civil lawsuit against the city of Ferguson and former officer Darren Wilson.

A US mayor is pressing for calm in his St Louis suburb after a white police officer fatally shot a black 18-year-old who police say pointed a handgun at the officer.

A 20-year-old man whose dead body was found inside a car in Ferguson after riots erupted had been intentionally set on fire.

Violence as police officer is cleared of shooting black teen

US president Barack Obama has appealed for calm as enraged protesters set fire to buildings and cars and looted businesses after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer over the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Angry crowds poured into the streets of Ferguson within minutes of news that a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer over the death of an unarmed black 18-year-old.

Police cars have been vandalised and several gunshots have been heard on the streets of Ferguson after the announcement that a white police officer will not be indicted over the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old.

A grand jury has reached a decision about whether to charge a white police officer in the shooting dead of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, US prosecutors say.

The white officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager does not expect to face criminal charges from a Missouri grand jury investigating the case, a police union has said.

The parents of the black teenager gunned down by police in Ferguson, Missouri, have rejected an apology by the city's top cop, saying he should be sacked and the white officer who shot their son arrested.

Protesters marched peacefully as calm prevailed for a fourth day in the US suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was shot by a white policeman, sparking more than a week of unrest.

The US National Guard has begun withdrawing from Ferguson, where there has been unrest since a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old nearly two weeks ago.

US attorney general Eric Holder met the officer in charge of security in the Missouri suburb of Ferguson yesterday hours after nearly 50 protesters were arrested in the 11th straight night of demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.

Residents of Ferguson were urged to stay home after dark, after days of clashes with police following the shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old.

US police officers in St Louis shot and killed a 23-year-old man who they say was wielding a knife and refused to drop it. 

The disproportionate incidence of police use of excessive force on black and Hispanic men is often equated to prejudice, but, as David Dante asks, what if dehumanisation is really the bigger problem?

The police chief in the St Louis suburb where an officer fatally shot an unarmed teenager has identified the officer as Darren Wilson.

Missouri state police are taking over security from local officers in the St Louis suburb that has been the scene of violent protests since an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by white police officer.

Protests in a US suburb rocked by racial unrest after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager has turned violent.

Rioters looted and burned shops, vandalised vehicles and taunted riot police who tried to block access to parts of a predominantly black suburb of St Louis after a candlelight vigil for an unarmed man who was fatally shot by an officer turned ugly.

A man broke into rapper Nelly’s house in suburban St Louis and stole electronics and video games.