Bone-fragment find ends Fossett search

Investigators have finished their search at the scene of millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett's (right) plane crash in California's Sierra Nevada mountains ahead of a storm that threatened to bury any remaining evidence under two feet of snow.

They said they discovered three more bone fragments which will be DNA tested to determine whether they are human and a match for Fossett, 63, who's plane vanished on 3 September last year.

US kills al-Qaeda boss and wife

A senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq suspected of masterminding deadly bombings in Baghdad, has been killed, the US military said today. The military said US troops acting in self-defence also killed his wife in Friday's firefight.

Today's statement identified the man killed as Mahir Ahmad Mahmud Judu' al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami

Boy (7) goes on killing spree in zoo

A seven-year-old boy broke into a popular Australian zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock.

The boy jumped a security fence at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre in central Australia then went on a 30-minute killing spree, using a rock to kill three lizards, including the zoo's beloved, 20-year-old goanna, which he then fed to an 11ft, 200kg saltwater crocodile, said zoo director Rex Neindorf.

Judge bans Anna Nicole Smith's breast op video

A judge has ordered a Texas doctor not to distribute video footage of Anna Nicole Smith's breast augmentation surgery in 1994. The order settles a lawsuit filed last year by the executor of Smith's estate, who was trying to stop Dr Gerald Johnson from distributing the tapes of the former Playboy Playmate who died last year. Larry Birkhead, who fathered Smith's daughter, called the video "disgusting". "The videotape focused on areas of her nude body that were unrelated to the location of the surgery," he said.