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Crystal Ferguson lives in a poor neighbourhood in north Charleston, South Carolina. Her home is a prefab, single-storey structure surrounded by a miniature, once-white picket fence, a parody of middle America. Inside the cramped house sausages are frying for her daughters Annika, nine, and four-year-old Hilary. A bombastic preacher on a religious radio programme praises

The Vatican is under pressure to help resolve one of the strangest of many enigmas lingering in Italy from the cold war years. For four years, prosecutors in Rome have been making a renewed attempt to get at the truth behind the disappearance in 1983 of Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee.

Seventeen years after her angsty pop punk made her a global star, Avril Lavignes back with a sixth album. And having survived illness and divorce, shes in no mood to compromise Pop stars especially women are frozen at the age they become famous. Breaking the ice usually involves a bad-girl reinvention, if not

The couple say they will deal with California squatting charges from five years ago after being arrested last week while trying to re-enter US from Canada A Vermont judge has released actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi from custody and the couple say they will now address five-year-old criminal charges in California.

Stormy weather and exceptionally high tides have brought flooding and evacuations and a surfing bonanza Stormy weather and exceptionally high tides have brought the largest waves in years crashing down on Californias shores, with some reaching heights of 30ft (9 metres) or more.