American gymnast Samantha Cerio has undergone surgery on both broken legs after sustaining a horrible, career-ending injury just two months before her wedding.

Strong gusts. heavy rain still expected in Florida Panhandle, parts of Alabama and Georgia

Hurricane Nate has made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) says.

President Barack Obama said the nation is "heartbroken" during his first visit to flood-ravaged southern Louisiana as he attempted to assure the many thousands who have suffered damage that his administration has made their recovery a priority

Three police officers were fatally shot in Baton Rouge and three others were wounded, according to officials, in what one witness described as a fusillade of dozens of shots shattering the calm of a Sunday morning.

In a written statement earlier in the day, Obama called the incident a "cowardly and reprehensible assault."

AFTER decades of issuing travel warnings to its citizens overseas, America is experiencing the shoe on the other foot.