It’s not just Donald Trump. The USA has a long history of jokers, eccentrics, and megalomaniacs running for the top office, from immortals to the king of the world, reports Robert Hume

If it does, it won’t have entirely been David Cameron’s fault, because he has been

I CAN’T quite shake the image. If Donald Trump gets into the White House and Boris Johnson moves into Downing Street, how will we cope with all that hair? asks Clodagh Finn

Kevin Stevens has written a book about tolerance. He talks to Sue Leonard about the fear caused by racial bias and misunderstanding in today’s world.

Germany was fooling itself if it believed the peaceful post-WW2 neighbourhood it helped create transcended the logic of brute force, as the Ukraine crisis reveals, writes Lucian Kim.

THIS column is a warning and an apology. At bedtime last Thursday, I hit the scratcher and went to sleep. An hour later, my phone chirped. It was a text. Would I emerge from a good dream to deal with it? No. Just as sleep reclaimed me, the phone chirped that it had an email. 

THE surprise is how long a backlash took to come. When I was a child in a heat-hazed suburb to the north of Palo Alto, almost no one had heard the term Silicon Valley.

The United States and other nations in the Group of Seven have agreed to “move swiftly” – as early as Monday – to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia for its actions in Ukraine.

Ulster will have to survive without Rory Best and Stephen Ferris for their first away date in the Magners League at Aironi in Italy this weekend.

BRING back hanging. I don’t care if he is our best player. Requesting a Phil Collins record surely deserves a much stiffer penalty.

The battle to deal with climate change needs to be fought like “World War Three”, the head of the Environment Agency warned today.

Pop's Elton John wants religion banned completely because he believes it promotes hatred of gays.

Ricky Hatton insists his brand new dietary regime has made him more hungry than ever for success.

SHUTTING down six maternity hospitals outside Dublin would put thousands of women’s lives at risk unless they were replaced by proper midwifery services, a leading obstetrician warned yesterday.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s 50-page dossier on Iraq will prove “beyond doubt” that Saddam Hussein’s regime has weapons of mass destruction, Government sources said tonight.

Concern that the US could ‘‘over-react’’ to the outrage was voiced by a British terrorism expert.