What's Killing America's White Men? BBC News

Every year, nearly 45,000 people in America kill themselves. That is more than twice the number that die in homicides, and the numbers are increasing. There is one group in particular causing this spike - white, middle aged men. India Rakusen goes to Montana, where suicide rates are double the national average, to find out what drives so many of these men to despair and taking their own lives.

US Preacher's Warning to Islamic Militants: 'The Women of Montana Are Armed'

BBC: Donald Trump's travel ban against immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries have caused controversy around the world - but one poll shows a majority of Americans support the move.

They certainly agree with Trump's stance in the state of Montana, where officials and residents have fought against efforts to resettle refugees.

Aleem Maqbool reports. (+ BBC video) » | Thursday, February 9, 2017

German Student Diren Dede Killed in 'Castle Doctrine' Case

Diren Dede's football team-mates and friends gather to remember
him in Hamburg on Wednesday

BBC: The father of a German exchange student shot dead in Montana after he trespassed in a man's garage has said the US cannot continue to "play cowboy" with firearms.

Markus Kaarma has been charged with deliberate murder in the Sunday killing of Diren Dede, 17, of Hamburg.

But he says Montana's self-defence law allowed him to shoot the boy.

Celal Dede said he would not have allowed his son to study in the US had he been aware of the lenient gun laws.

"I didn't think for one night that everyone here can kill somebody just because that person entered his back yard," Mr Dede told the German news agency dpa. » | Thursday, May 01, 2014

Heavy Snow Revives US Interest in 86-year-old Sport

Heavy snows across America has led to the revival of Skijoring, a demonstration sport in the 1928 Winter Olympics

Read the Telegraph article here | David Millward, US Correspondent | Monday, February 17, 2014
WIKI: Skijoring »