US workers are putting in more hours than workers do almost anywhere else. They are also increasingly retiring later and taking fewer holiday days.

Police have used tear gas to disperse protesters after officers were injured and a major road was shut down during a demonstration over the latest fatal shooting of a black man by US police.

Police and the FBI are trying to determine whether the killing of three Muslims during a neighbourhood parking and noise dispute was a hate crime.

The fatal shooting of three family members near the University of North Carolina campus in the US was motivated by a neighbour dispute over parking, police said.

Three people have been shot to death in the US at a condominium complex east of the University of North Carolina campus and a man has been arrested.

Travis Tygart will forever be known as the man who brought Lance Armstrong down. The USADA chief executive explains how he has managed to retain his love for sport despite all he’s uncovered

Children with special needs are effectively being blocked from entering some schools due to hidden discrimination that has yet to be fully tackled by the Government.

The only inevitable has preoccupied all cultures and religion, but now in the West we shun it, says Suzanne Harrington.

FORMER 400m world champion Antonio Pettigrew has been found dead in the United States, according to the university where he worked as an assistant track coach.

One of nature’s greatest mysteries could be about to be solved after scientists revealed a new theory on how salmon find their way home.

Children should be encouraged to exercise from a young age to prevent developing heart disease risk as teenagers, international experts said today.

Villa have signed promising American teenager Eric Lichaj.

An abundance of vitamin D seems to help prevent multiple sclerosis, according to a study in more than seven million people that offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the power of the “sunshine vitamin” against MS.

Taking very high doses of a drug to push cholesterol to very low levels can help people with heart disease avoid strokes and heart attacks, research has revealed.

Shannon Development has hosted the first meeting of the high-profile international advisory board for the National Agile Logistic Hub project.

EVEN as a working-class kid in a tiny Southern mill town, young Johnny Edwards displayed an infectious smile and sunny outlook that were destined to take him far.

GREAT BRITAIN & Ireland Curtis Cup captain, Monkstown’s Ada O’Sullivan, is planning to use the spectre of playing against teenage sensation Michelle Wie to motivate her eight-member squad.