USA: South Dakota officials have cancelled a public safety campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of jerking the steering wheel on icy roads, saying it’s too risqué.

SWISS CHAIN SORRY FOR ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ PACKAGING

For New Jersey governor Chris Christie, the road to the White House in 2016 has suddenly become a little bumpy — but it’s not closed.

HAIRY SWIMMER

After watching the debate on the Moore Street motion on my computer, and hearing references to American historic sites and our historic preservation efforts, I felt I had to write to encourage Ireland to preserve the important battleground of her nationhood, Moore Street.

The New York melting pot was overflowing in Lower Manhattan yesterday morning, all manner of people brought there by their champion football team.

A heatwave across much of Europe is starting forest fires, causing crops to wither and roads to melt, while fridges and fans are buckling in the searing sun.

Two men and three teenage boys have been charged with gang-raping a seven-year-old girl sold for sex by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in New Jersey.

Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden, New Jersey, in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the worst US mass murder at the time, has died at 88.

A US talk show host whose techniques have come under fire when the mother of a missing boy killed herself a day after she was grilled by the TV presenter was unrepentant yesterday.

Levees around the vulnerable city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, held against the swollen Susquehanna River today, ending an evacuation order for 200,000 people.

The captain of a boat that capsized on a lake in New York State, killing 20 people, told authorities it was hit by waves from another boat or boats, and his went over as he tried to steer out of them, authorities said today.

Tens of thousands of letters mailed around the US could have picked up trace amounts of anthrax while passing through a contaminated postal centre, the nation’s top anthrax investigator has said.

Anthrax has been posted to a second US senator the FBI have confirmed.

US government officials were today preparing to question a man detained in a town at the centre of the US anthrax outbreak.

A New York Post employee has contracted skin anthrax, a television station affiliated with the newspaper reported today.