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Schools and transport services across US eastern seaboard have been suspended with 'Frankenstorm' due to make landfall.

Sandy is expected to gain further strength before making landfall anywhere between Maryland and Southern England.

Nine-year-old in Halloween costume injured by relative at party who mistook her for foul-smelling mammal.

Republican challenger just one point down on President Barack Obama with female voters in 12 swing states.

Klein Michael Thaxton, 22, took a manager at CW Breitsman Associates hostage claiming to have a bomb in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Police is negotiating with Klein Michael Thaxton, 22-year-oldwho took a hostage in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

Isolated pacifists who reject the modern world, America's Amish community is often a puzzle to outsiders.

Obama to sign Enhance Security Cooperation Act, giving Israel more firepower and access to US spy satellite images.

Penn State University researchers find that teens who use shortcuts to compose text messages become very poor in English language and grammar skills.

Landmark 'Obamacare' reform keeps the US on a course towards guaranteeing health care for all its citizens.

Former America's Next Top Model star YaYa Dacosta has married Joshua Bee Alafia in intimate Afrocentric ceremony in Pennsylvania.

Former football coach Jerry Sandusky, 68, found guilty of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years.

Father of computing, who would have been 100 on 23 June, cracked Nazi's Enigma code at Bletchley Park and studied artificial intelligence.

Miss USA 2012 winner Olivia Culpa may find more skeptics eying her crown, as another contestant has claimed that the pageant was rigged.

Carissa Hads, 24, of Massachusetts disguised herself as boy by using a back brace to hide breasts and prosthetic penis to have sex with underage girl.

Miss Universe Organisation filed a defamation suit against former Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin and is seeking a monetary return for her "defamatory" statements about Miss USA pageant rig.

Search engine honours birthday of Keith Haring, social activist and artist, who died of Aids.

Mitt Romney vows to beat Obama and promises better America in clean sweep of five Republican primaries.

Triple win in three primaries catapults Republican candidate into pole position to take on Barack Obama.

Gate at Philadelphia airport closed while bomb squad called to remove material, though incident is not thought to be terrorist-related.

Over 80 percent of cybercrime is perpetrated by organised crime, but how is the Mob doing it? We investigate.

Microsoft, accompanied by US Marshals, have disrupted an online security scam known as the Zeus botnet.

Perelman School of Medicine researchers at University of Pennsylvania claim to have discovered cause of baldness.

One Direction’s Harry Styles Wooing Kim Kardashian?

Scientists have discovered a new species of leopard frog using DNA data to compare the new species with other species of leopard frog.

Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum set sights on biggest day of Republican presidential nomination campaign.

Rick Santorum has refused to apologise for remarks he made four years ago in which he said "Satan has set his sights on the United States" but his comments drew renewed criticism from Republican heavyweights on Wednesday.

A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered a 300-million-year-old tropical forest that was previously buried under ash.

Mitt Romney is in danger of burning through his cash reserves before the end of the Republican primary cycle, new reports filed on Monday suggest.

The man has been charged with aggravated assault and indecent exposure and is being held on $50,000 bail at the Chester County Prison.