A small plane apparently low on fuel hit a power line and crashed into a wooded area near a West Virginia, USA, airport killing all six people aboard, authorities said today.

Nearly half of the 70 miners trapped underground by a fire in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan have been rescued, while the rest remained underground in emergency refuge rooms stocked with oxygen and supplies, a mine official said today.

The Sligo Weekender newspaper has been honoured with a top world newspaper award in the US.

A SNIPER who has killed three people in West Virginia, USA, may have struck again after a 16-year-old girl says she was shot at a shop in Dunbar, about six miles from Charleston.