Ula Ilnytzky

Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the "mother of the civil rights movement," she wrote a detailed account of nearly being raped by a neighbour.

Photos from the Beatles' first US concert in Washington in 1964 will be auctioned as silver gelatin prints.

Road crews scrambled to clear highways for Monday's commuters, and travellers stranded at airports still waited to get home as the United States Northeast dug out from a record-breaking storm that dumped 60cm or more of snow. The storm dropped 68cm of snow in Central Park -- the heaviest since record-keeping was started in 1869.