Mitt Romney has won the Florida Republican presidential primary, early results showed today.

Three men were tonight charged with a series of terrorist offences linked to the recovery of a cache of suspected dissident republican firearms in Armagh.

A second haul of suspected bomb-making equipment has been discovered by police investigating dissident republican activities in the North.

SARAH Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will return to her broadcast roots and take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator, the channel announced yesterday.

Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will return to her broadcast roots and take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator, the cable channel announced.

Controversial plans for a forum in the North to give a voice to the victims and survivors of the Troubles are published today.

The head of the North's prosecution service tonight defended his decision to put Chris Ward in the dock over the £26.5m (€33.5m) Northern Bank robbery.

An independent airline advert claiming the North was leaving British occupation behind in favour of increased Irish influence today sparked a furious row with unionists.

Alaska governor and US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a “per diem” (by the day) allowance intended to cover meals and expenses while travelling on state business.

IRISH political parties have clearly indicated their preference for the next president of the United States by not sending a single representative to the Republican convention where John McCain will be officially nominated as candidate.

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is “the largest grass-roots army in recent political history”, his campaign manager said today.

THE war for the White House is being fought on many fronts, and among the battles is that between the Bush twins and the Kerry daughters.

A Sinn Fein election candidate in Derry alleged today his house was broken into by British intelligence.

George Bush plans to spend a record €186m on his re-election campaign which will be launched near the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it was reported today.

A senior Garda today told of a decades-old security file on Michael McKevitt, the alleged leader of the Real IRA paramilitary group which claimed responsibility for the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland.