Despite a serviceable, cruise-ship crooner's voice, Mitch Winehouse's stage presence was awkward and berating audience members for talking hardly helped dispel the slightly uncomfortable air around him... more
A man with an AK-47 opened fire on a table of National Guardsmen at a pancake restaurant in Carson City, Nevada, killing three of them, two others and wounding five... more
President Obama makes a last-ditch appeal to voters to stand by him and the Democratic party as they face their worst mid-term election results in more than 50 years
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View from America: The victory of Christine O’Donnell in this week’s Delaware primary means a stalwart of the anti-masturbation lobby will be the Republicans’ senatorial candidate in November... more
Billionaire former eBay boss Meg Whitman could be California’s first woman governor after winning the Republican nomination for November’s mid-term elections in America... more
British leisure entrepreneur Robert Earl has moved a step nearer selling his Planet Hollywood resort in Las Vegas today as casino giant Harrah’s Entertainment filed to clear a deal with Nevada’s Gaming Control Board... more
Banks in California and Nevada become the latest victims of the subprime crisis as Washington is forced to pick up $860 tab from failed lenders... more
It's a long way from jam-making and knitting - two members of the Women's Institute have just returned from a tour searching for the world's best brothel... more
He has a look of his pugilist father and packs a mean punch, too. At the Top Rank boxing gym, a few yards off the brightly lit Las Vegas Strip, Chris Eubank junior dances and dives before jabbing his sparring partner. ... more
Unbreak My Heart singer Toni Braxton has been forced to cancel a gig after she was hospitalised with chest pains. The singer was admitted to a Las Vegas hospital on Monday after falling ill and pulled her residency concert at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino resort last night
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Pint-sized former child star Gary Coleman has revealed he married a woman almost half his age - and twice his height - at a private mountaintop ceremony in Nevada in August last year... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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