KATIE HOLMES may be a sweetheart on screen and nice enough in person, but as an interviewee, she’s pure hell.

A WOMAN died after falling head-first into a recycling bin and was only found when her husband came home from work.

The biological parents of a baby boy born to a US woman who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic say they will be “eternally grateful” to her.

A US woman who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic gave birth to a boy.

US residents are angry today at receiving US$25 (€18) parking tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways.

Barack Obama and John McCain headed into the final weekend of the presidential campaign today focused tightly on the economy.

Barack Obama unveiled a new plan to tackle the United States’ economic crisis today as his Republican rival John McCain insisted the race was not over yet.

A jury in Toledo, Ohio, today convicted a priest of murdering a nun a day before Easter in 1980 in a hospital chapel, a killing that prosecutors say was steeped with religious ritualism because of the pattern of her stab wounds.

Parishioners at Katie Holmes' old church in her native Toledo, Ohio are begging the actress to baptise her newborn baby in a proper Catholic church.

Japan’s Nippon Sheet Glass has sealed a $3.8bn (€3.6bn) deal to acquire world-famous British firm Pilkington, which makes glass for cars and buildings, it is reported today.

Tom Cruise is reportedly planning to buy a $1.5 million (€1,2m) home in his fiancee Katie Holmes' hometown of Toledo, Ohio.

Tom Cruise is one hell of a smoothie.

US polling places experienced scattered problems today as legions of lawyers, election-rights activists and computer scientists watched for any trouble that could disenfranchise voters.

The first presidential election since the United States plunged into its war on terrorism was finally handed over to voters today.

The first presidential election since the US plunged into its war on terrorism was finally handed over to the voters today.

Seven children – all related – died when fire raged through an apartment in Toledo, Ohio.

A ROMAN Catholic priest in the United States has been accused of murdering a nun in a ritualistic killing 24 years ago.

A Roman Catholic priest has been accused of murdering a nun in the US in a ritualistic killing 24 years ago.

DEPENDING on whom you believe, Gerald Robinson is either a quiet, somewhat remote, balding cleric who has faithfully served the Catholic Church for the past 40 years, or a sexual pervert and participant in bizarre satanic rituals who killed a 71-year-old nun and covered up the crime.

A WOMAN’S allegations that Roman Catholic priests sexually abused her during bizarre rituals led police to re-examine the 1980 killing of a nun and later charge one of the priests with murder.

A woman’s allegations that Roman Catholic priests sexually abused her during bizarre rituals led police to re-examine the 1980 killing of a nun and later charge one of the priests with murder.

The thousands killed on September 11 were being remembered where they died and across America today, the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

TO add insult to the injury of losing Sunday’s play-off with Doug Tewell for the Farmers Charity Classic on the US Champion’s Tour, Eamonn Darcy has not found a place in this week’s $2.5 million US Seniors Open.

Eight decomposing bodies, some of them gnawed by rodents, were found in a funeral home, US authorities said.