US Senator John McCain has blamed illegal immigrants for starting some of the huge wildfires that have devastated the state of Arizona in recent weeks. Arizona's Republican senator accused migrants of setting fires either to signal others, keep warm or distract border guards. The comments by Mr McCain prompted a sharp rebuke from Latino rights [...]

The US will hunt down and kill new al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri as it did Osama Bin Laden, Washington's top military officer has vowed. The al-Qaeda statement vowed that that under Zawahiri, it would pursue jihad or holy war against the US and Israel "until all invading armies leave the land of Islam". In his [...]

I hadn’t seen much college tennis until the NCAA tournament came to my area (Stanford) last month, and it was a revelation. It struck me that a lot of talented young players have no idea what they’re missing, and that current trends on the women’s pro tour could affect significant change. Specifically: If maturity is [...]

SI.com’s Jon Wertheim breaks down the men’s and women’s seeds at Wimbledon. Read on for the top first-round matchups, dark horses and predictions. 1. Rafael Nadal: No sooner have we anointed him the all-time King of Roland Garros that we trot out this stat: he hasn’t lost at Wimbledon since 2007 and is riding a [...]

By NICK WINGFIELD, ANUPREETA DAS and GINA CHON With Internet valuations surging and bankers circling Silicon Valley, online-games maker Zynga Inc. is preparing to test investors’ appetite for an initial public offering that values the young company as high as $20 billion. Online-game maker Zynga, known for FarmVille and CityVille, is preparing to file for [...]

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn claimed diplomatic immunity and complained about being handcuffed as he was arrested for sexual assault in New York, official documents reveal. At the airport police station, detectives ordered Mr Strauss-Kahn to empty his pockets, the documents show. "Is that necessary?" he asked when handcuffs were produced. "Yes it is," said [...]

Iraq will ask the US to keep troops in the country beyond an end-of-2011 pullout deadline, says the nominee to be the next US defence secretary. Outgoing CIA director Leon Panetta said he had "every confidence that a request like that will be forthcoming". Mr Panetta was speaking at a US Senate committee considering his [...]

By JEREMY PAGE ZENGCHENG, China—This was supposed to be the debut year of “Happy Guangdong”—a slogan coined by the high-flying provincial Communist Party chief in this southern export powerhouse. But a disturbingly different image emerged this week after migrant workers attacked government buildings and overturned police cars in Guangdong’s jeans-making hub of Zengcheng and the [...]

By JENNY STRASBURG, ANTON TROIANOVSKI and AMY SCHATZ Philip Falcone’s plan to build a multibillion-dollar telecom network, the defining bet of his metamorphosis from hedge-fund manager to technology start-up investor, is getting dogged by interference. The challenges to his plan, which has involved dedicating much of his hedge funds’ money to a single technology venture, [...]

An aviation student from Scotland has been killed alongside her brother when the light aircraft they were in came down in central Florida. Reports from the US said the plane had nosedived and hit a tree. In a statement, Sheriff Deryl Loar, from Indian River Country in Florida, said: "The siblings and their parents were [...]