The rarely shuttered U.S. government closed down for a second day Tuesday, as the northeast braced for another massive snow blitz just days after a historic blizzard paralyzed the region.

Los Angeles' famous Hollywood sign will be covered up Thursday with a sign that reads "Save the Peak", after a conservation group successfully bought the land it sits on to prevent a private development.

Nuns in Montreal, Canada showed an extreme form of forgiveness when they forgave the man who killed their fellow Sister.

An alligator that killed an 11-year-old girl bathing in a creek in northern Brazil was shot dead by searchers with the victim still in its jaws, AFP reported Tuesday.