US police have shot dead a tiger that was spotted running along on a Georgia highway.

A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day as police surrounded an underground bunker where authorities said a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead.

SCIENTISTS believe they have found the long-sought missing link between fish and land animals in the shape of the oldest known arm bone.

Up to 700 people have been evacuated from eastern Arizona’s Fort Apache Indian Reservation after a 2,000-acre wildfire destroyed sacred sites.