THERE are anxious times ahead for thousands of hip replacement patients in Ireland as they await tests to see if they have been implanted with faulty components.

FIANNA FÁIL Senator Larry Butler has insisted that the “rumours” surrounding his controversial expenses are “ill-founded” and that his name will be cleared.

Facing a divided Congress and a dissatisfied nation, President Barack Obama will aim at getting the US economy and his own presidency back on track in his first State of the Union policy speech tonight.

President Barack Obama stepped up his campaign against Wall Street today with a far-reaching proposal for tougher regulation of the biggest US banks.

A GOOD education was always believed to be the road to a steady well paid secure job.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan funded Fianna Fáil councillor Sean Gilbride when he took leave of absence from a teaching job to work full-time on the businessman’s Quarryvale project in west Dublin, it was alleged at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

Suspected Muslim insurgents ambushed election officials today in five separate attacks in Thailand's restive south, killing two police officers and an election volunteer.

THE shock defeat of Senator Maurice Cummins at this week’s Waterford constituency Fine Gael convention may have sounded the death knell of his personal ambition to become a member of the Dáil.

A Republican official who worked with George Bush in an Alabama campaign in 1972 said she recalled him talking about his National Guard duty and seeing him in uniform before the election that year.

US TV news opted to be safe, not sorry, in covering the election results.

George Bush's Republican Party has won control of the US senate.

Two full panels remain to be filled in the race for seats in the Senate election.

The Fine Gael Party Leader Enda Kenny TD announced today details of the party's candidates for the Senate elections.

Fine Gael’s severely depleted parliamentary party is due to meet today after the party’s disastrous defeat in last week’s general election.

Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay could testify at a US Senate hearing on Tuesday, a week after pulling out of two scheduled appearances when some in Congress suggested he had engaged in criminal activity.