A British local newspaper received an anonymous call about "some big news" in America 25 minutes before President John F Kennedy was assassinated, documents have shown.

Harvard University yesterday reopened four buildings at the heart of its centuries-old campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that had been evacuated earlier after reports that explosives had been planted on the premises.

Legalising cannabis and opening Amsterdam-style coffee shops all over the country could be worth up to €300m for the Exchequer and would take millions away from criminal gangs such as those which murdered crime journalist Veronica Guerin, Independent TD Luke “Ming” Flanagan claimed yesterday.

One of the two suspects in the MIT officer shooting is dead but the other, who is tied to the Boston marathon bombing, remains at large, Boston police said.

A police officer has been shot dead and armed police have converged on a neighbourhood near Boston amid reports of explosive devices being used against them.

A police officer shot on the campus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has died from injuries.

An Irish nanny has been remanded in custody in the US charged with murdering a one-year-old girl she was caring for, authorities have confirmed.

An Irish nanny living in the US, who has been charged with violently assaulting a baby who later died, may yet face a murder charge, the district attorney’s office has said.

An Irish nanny living illegally in America has been charged with violently assaulting a baby who later died, US authorities said.

TRIBUTES from around the world flooded into an book of condolence set up on the internet to mourn the deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.