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Two grandparents who face extradition to the US on embezzlement charges tried to take their own lives after "losing hope" of reprieve ...

Daughter of man who won landmark Brown v Board of Education case over right for black children to be taught alongside their white counterparts claims racism may still exist in schools ...

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Paul Simon and wife Edie Brickell appear in court over over disorderly conduct ...

Veteran ABC newswoman Barbara Walters has fallen at an inauguration party at an ambassador's home in Washington and has been hospitalised. ...

Saira Blair enlists school friends as she ousts 67-year-old Republican incumbent in West Virginia ...

Should Iron Man be quaking in his boots? Lucinda Everett meets Marvel's new heroes ...

Three roommates in New York describe how they came across thousands of dollars hidden inside their junk shop sofa ...

Firefighters struggle to extinguish fires that have caused California residents to evacuate their homes ...

A 17 year-old girl says she was forced to leave a prom after fathers complained her dancing would give sons 'impure thoughts' ...

Surprise decision believed to be related to management style and complaint about her pay ...

How do you escape sexism in rural Albania? By becoming a man. Helen Brown reports ...

Woman discovers 12ft African python crawling in her bathroom ...

Up to 50,000 gallons of crude oil pours onto the streets of Los Angeles ...

Watch live from New York as President Barack Obama and September 11 survivors, rescuers and victims' relatives mark the opening of the 9/11 museum ...

Thousands evacuated from San Diego as fires rage across state ...

A Los Angeles neighbourhood was left knee deep in crude oil after a high-pressure pipe burst in the city ...

President vows that 'generations yet unborn will never forget' the 2001 terror attacks that forever changed America ...

Maintenance court battle between socialite and ex-boyfriend, billionaire Warren Lichtenstein, intensifies ...

Paul and Sandra Dunham, who threatened to take their own lives rather than be extradited to the US, were treated in hospital after being found "distressed" by police ...