Hollywood star Burt Reynolds, faces having his waterfront home in Hobe Sound, Florida, repossessed over claims that he owes £700,000 in mortgage repayments... more
Three fugitive siblings suspected of trying to kill a Florida policeman, and an armed bank raid in Georgia, were caught when their getaway car crashed during a 100mph chase in Colorado... more
British defence group QinetiQ has won a contract worth almost $2 billion to provide engineering services for Nasa at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida... more
The world’s worst oil spill comes ashore in the Gulf of Mexico today as engineers put the finishing touches to a giant underwater funnel designed to halt it... more
Dr Nathaniel Segaren, a London paediatrician based in Haiti, records the harrowing choice he has been forced to make between who to save and who to leave to die ... more
Emergency evacuation flights that took hundreds of Haitian earthquake victims to hospitals in the US before the flights were suspended are to resume... more
Britons regard it as a Disney World holiday and retirement paradise but in the US, Florida is fast gaining a reputation as the country’s centre for white-collar crime... more
The uncle of a Mexican engineer who became an astronaut after farming cucumbers shows off his photograph as his nephew prepares to go into space... more
Padraig Harrington's decision to forego a holiday break at Cheltenham and attempt to play his way back to form has paid off in the CA Championship at Doral in Florida... more
An investment banker and amateur pilot who apparently faked his own death in a plane crash before parachuting into hiding is in custody in America... more
A pilot wanted on financial fraud charges parachuted out of his plane over the US and allowed the aircraft to crash in an apparent attempt to fake his death... more
Senior judges in London will be asked to uphold a pre-nuptial agreement signed by a wealthy American couple who divorced after 10 years of marriage... 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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