A former US Olympic canoeist has been indicted for allegedly vandalising a newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington.

Not since Posh and Becks sat on thrones and co-ordinated in Quality Street-purple has there been such excitement around a celebrity wedding.

A couple have been arrested after scaling the Empire State Building in an apparent marriage proposal. 

A teenager alleged to be a member of the criminal cyber hacking group Scattered Spider – which was linked to attacks on M&S and Transport for London – has been arrested, according to US authorities. 

The parents and grandparents of 16 children found living in a “disgusting” home with “signs of human faeces” have appeared at a US court via videolink.

Victor Willis, the frontman of the Village People and co-writer of their massive hit YMCA, has died, his family has said.

Charlie Kirk has been posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump.

Grammy-award winning R&B and soul singer D’Angelo has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer, his family has said.

The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over a $1.4bn (£1bn) judgment against him after he described the Sandy Hook shooting as a hoax.

Authorities have identified the 16 people killed in a massive blast at a munitions factory in rural Tennessee.