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School principal held hostage in NY State

Gunman thought to be a parent is holding school principal hostage in town of Pine Plains, New York

Video: woman footballer banned for violence

Elizabeth Lambert is given indefinite ban for eye-watering series of assaults during a US college football match

Safety alert on Maclaren pushchairs

Manufacturer offers safety modification on 1m US buggies after 12 children lose fingertips - but no action in UK

Google buys leading mobile advert provider

Purchase of AdMob is a significant step for Google as it seeks to dominate the smartphone mobile sector

Beltway sniper to be executed tonight

Muhammad and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo killed ten people and wounded three in random shootings in October 2002

At least 130 are killed in Hurricane Ida

Landslides and overflowing rivers carried away houses while a raging torrent ripped through an entire section of town

Online support for Fort Hood killer Malik Hasan

Radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , who lives in Yemen, called Nidal Malik Hasan a hero and man of conscience in his blog

Malik Hasan ‘tried to contact al-Qaeda’

Fears of a terrorist link to the Fort Hood massacre are growing after claims that the gunman had links to a radical cleric

Iran charges American hikers with spying

US demands release of Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, who apparently strayed into Iran from Iraqi Kurdistan

Fort Hood gunman 'awake and speaking'

Major Nidal Hasan has talked to staff at Texas military hospital five days after killing 13 soldiers in gun rampage

Kraft launches £9.8bn hostile bid for Cadbury

Dairy Milk maker issues a withering rebuff to the US food giant, describing its offer as 'unattractive' and 'derisory'

FBI to probe Fort Hood gunman's 9/11 links

Senator Joe Lieberman calls for inquiry into whether US Army failed to spot Major Nidal Hasan turning to extremism

Chávez raises stakes in border stand-off

Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, has ordered the country’s military to prepare for armed conflict with Colombia

Scores dead after flooding in El Salvador

National emergency declared as landslides and floods kill 124 over the weekend as Hurricane Ida roars towards the US

Mayor’s niece lived with 'Cleveland Strangler'

Lori Frazier, the niece of Cleveland's Mayor, said that she still considered herself to be Anthony Sowell's girlfriend

President 'insensitive' over Fort Hood shootings

The President’s absence from US's largest military base is in contrast to a low-key visit by his predecessor on Friday

A first step — but a big one — for Barack Obama

He has achieved what no other US President has done: the passage of a sweeping health reform Bill in a chamber of Congress

Afghans have waited eight years for security

Counter-insurgency theory has moved from the idea of simply killing Taleban fighters to focusing on protecting the populace