Darkness at noon..

Millions view rare total eclipse over America

- CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN

NOON fell dark across a thin stretch of North America yesterday amid a rare total eclipse of the sun.

Millions of people from Mexico to Canada looked up at the sky to glimpse the phenomenon, while protecting their eyes from the sun's intense light.

The eclipse began in the Pacific then followed a densely populated path over North America before brushing the UK.

States such as Texas had more than four minutes of midday darkness and almost all of North America was given at least a partial eclipse.