Dan Glaister

Movies are being released hard and fast this festive season, writes Dan Glaister.

The first priority for the new president, naturally, will be the court. Not the Supreme Court, but the basketball court.

Democrat campaign targets the swing state of New Mexico. Dan Glaister reports

The young governor from the remote state engaged in her own brand of shuttle diplomacy in the summer of 2007, even posing with some of her troops.

Sharing the stage at a mega-church, Barack Obama and John McCain hardly had time for anything but the political equivalent of an air kiss.

Reality has intruded on a Ben Stiller spoof war film in a way that its makers did not anticipate.

The Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was said to be in a serious condition after the car he was driving flipped over several times late on Sunday.

Severed feet are washing up on shore in a whodunnit that has the locals in a Canadian fishing and ferrying community buzzing.

An American television show has been billed as <i>Lord of the Flies</i> for the reality TV generation. Dan Glaister reports in Los Angeles

Thousands of protesters were expected to line the route of the latest leg of the Olympic torch's ''Journey of Harmony'' on Wednesday as officials in San Francisco braced themselves for a repetition of the tumultuous scenes in Paris and London. A broad coalition of protest groups has converged on the city.

Authorities removed more than 180 women and children from the Texas compound of a polygamist sect on Saturday evening after receiving reports of ''sexual and physical abuse''. The 10 000-member Mormon group is led by Warren Jeffs, who was convicted in Utah last year on two counts of accomplice to rape.

The show will go on, even if there is a picket at the red carpet, writes Dan Glaister.