Dashcam footage has been released of a white police officer arresting Sandra Bland during a routine traffic stop, who later died in jail.
Police charged a young African-American man on Sunday in connection with the shooting in Ferguson that wounded two policemen.
Police officer Darren Wilson has not been seen in public since shooting Michael Brown, and black Americans doubt whether he will face justice.
A tornado has swept through an Oklahoma City suburb, tearing down blocks of homes, two schools and killing 91 people, 20 of which were children
From a symbolic hamlet to a swing state neighbouring Washington to the storm-scarred streets of New York, Americans rose early to cast ballots.
The first thing you notice when you see Marilyn Monroe’s gloves in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is how small her hands were.
Bombs killed a police officer and wounded five other people on Wednesday on the eve of parliamentary elections in Algeria, prompting fears of renewed Islamist extremism. The blasts came 48 hours after the North Africa branch of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network called on Algerians to boycott Thursday’s polls.
On the eve of only its third multiparty parliamentary election, there is concern in Algeria that too few citizens will bother to go out Thursday to cast their ballots. The outcome is forecast to favour a trio of political parties in the 389-seat National People’s Assembly allied with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who since 1999 has wielded real power in North Africa’s biggest nation.
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/ 4 September 2006
Every morning a mild-mannered British servant catches his commuter train to London, whips open his laptop and helps change the way people travel around the world. Mark Smith is the man behind <i>The Man in Seat</i>, an independent website that’s riding a wave of global popularity as more and more travellers give up on chaotic air travel and embrace the romance of railways.
Britain fell silent for two minutes on Friday in memory of the victims of the London bombings, as its top police officer warned that the threat of more outrages has ”palpably increased” in the year since then. It was the worst terrorist to date attack on British soil, as well as Europe’s first experience with a suicide bombing.