Robert Higgins reflects on the fall of Saigon 40 years ago today to communist North Vietnam. While views are divided, for most in Vietnam, reunification of the country has been a good thing

THERE has always been a special relationship between Ireland and France going back to at least 1798. The French, unlike the brutish Brits, are a civilised, rational people, right?

Rescuers recovered the bodies of seven Americans and nine Vietnamese who died in a helicopter crash while searching for the remains of US soldiers missing in action from the Vietnam War.

Officials have begun to recover the bodies of nine Vietnamese and seven Americans who died in a helicopter crash while searching for Americans missing in action from the Vietnam War.