A MAN has been accused of stabbing a dog to death with a sword in retaliation against its owner, a hotel owner who had evicted him.

The United States will miss a 2007 treaty deadline for destroying chemical weapons stockpiles, and the cost of getting rid of them will be $9bn (£6bn) more than expected, a Pentagon official told lawmakers yesterday.

A plane returning from a skydiving trip has crashed into the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, killing all nine people on board.