It would be a major setback for Goal, one of Ireland’s leading charities, and also for the tens of thousands of people relying on it for support, if its funding were to be hit by news of a US probe into key aspects of the organisation’s work in Syria, the biggest programme in the charity’s history.

Going to Somalia to make a film about pirates wasn’t the easiest assignment for Tommy Pallotta, writes Ed Power

LET’S do a security sweep of the room! No men dressed in black suits speaking into microphones up their sleeves? Check. No femme fatales dressed in silk reaching for their stilettos? Check. 

A suspected al-Qaida terrorist charged over the 1998 attacks on embassies in east Africa that killed more than 200 people has died in custody days before his trial was to start in the United States.

President Barack Obama has spoken to Cuban President Raul Castro about normalising full diplomatic relations between the long time foes.

What happens to a man alleged to be a suspect in the torture and killing of two Irish UN peacekeepers is a matter for American authorities, the Department of Defence has stated.

Tobacco firm describes the damages as ‘grossly excessive’

Amanda Knox said she will only be extradited to Italy "kicking and screaming", after judges reinstated her murder conviction for the death of British student Meredith Kercher.

FOR more than a decade, a relentless campaign by China to steal valuable, confidential information from US corporations flourished with barely a peep from Washington. And now it might never be stopped.

China has said it is time for the world economy to be "de-Americanised", in response to the ongoing US debt-ceiling crisis.

US politicians have decided to give back-pay to the 800,000 workers on unpaid leave due to the government shutdown.

YOU’D think that digital narcissism begins and ends with the self, and of course it mostly does, until you realise that the average narcissist would consider their baby an extension of self.

The Obama administration faced a breakdown in confidence yesterday from key foreign allies over secret surveillance programmes that reportedly installed covert listening devices in EU offices.

A former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for revealing highly classified surveillance programs has been allowed to leave for a “third country” because a US extradition request did not fully comply with Hong Kong law, the territory’s government said today.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed calls for a fresh inquiry into the conviction of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi in the wake of his death.

Forget underpants bombs. The new terror threat is far more serious. Daniel Klaidman And Christopher Dickey report on a more sophisticated attempt to evade security

Computer giant Apple is being sued for alleged e-book price fixing by the American government.

Dick Cheney played a pivotal role in the war on terror, and the US, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan paid a high price, writes TP O’Mahony.

A 1970s militant who carried out one of the most brazen airplane hijackings in US history lived for decades in a Portuguese hamlet with his wife and two children, neighbours said.

HEAVY declines were again the main feature of international markets yesterday, with European exchanges falling to their lowest levels in almost two years.

Afghanistan’s president has rejected a US apology for the mistaken killing of nine Afghan boys in a Nato air attack, saying civilian casualties were no longer acceptable.

The US said today it was considering its response to the hijack by Somali pirates of an American couple sailing the world with a yacht full of bibles.

An American woman released by Iran after more than a year in prison flew out of the country tonight to the nearby Gulf nation of Oman to be reunited with her mother.

THE US Government told Scottish officials that the Lockerbie bomber’s release on compassionate grounds was “far preferable” to his transfer back to a Libyan jail, it was revealed yesterday.

The American government has handed BP a €56m bill to cover the initial cost of the oil spill.

The American government is to sell its 27% stake in Citigroup, the bank which needed three taxpayer rescues in two years.

The Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect helped organise a “war on terror” conference while studying in the UK, it emerged today.

The alleged terrorist behind the Christmas Day airliner plot is said to have told US agents there are more people “just like him” ready to carry out future attacks.

A LEAKED memo appearing to show Tehran’s efforts to design an atomic bomb trigger was forged by the United States, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a US news programme yesterday.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index hit four digits again today.

China’s foreign reserves have risen to $2.13 trillion (€1.51 trillion) after growth picked up in June despite a slump in trade, data showed today.

THE leader of a visiting American congressional delegation Richie Neal has said Ireland’s corporate tax rate is not the target of Washington’s crackdown on tax-dodging.

A $700bn (€482bn) rescue package for the United States’ troubled economy was in tatters tonight after it was rejected by the lower house of the US Congress.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares surged this morning on the back of positive financial news from the US that the American government has taken over two huge mortgage firms.

US officials fear singer Beyonce Knowles' passport has been improperly accessed, making her the latest celebrity to be targeted by crooks.

IRISH people travelling to the US are to face tighter restrictions by having to register their personal details online in advance of their trip.

A millionaire couple convicted of enslaving and abusing their two Indonesian housekeepers must forfeit their mansion to the US government.

The No 2 US commander in Iraq today said a 7-month-old security operation has reduced violence by 50% in Baghdad but he acknowledged that civilians were still dying at too high a rate.

Islamic cleric Abu Hamza was involved in a global conspiracy to wage Jihad against the US and other Western countries, an extradition hearing in Britain was told today.

Insurgents penetrated security today in a city sacred to Shiites, planting a car bomb near one of Iraq’s holiest shrines and killing at least 37 people in a continued surge in attacks outside Baghdad during a security crackdown there.

Mexican acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela have criticised the decision to deny their entry into the US, calling the ruling "frustrating".

SCIENTISTS in the US say they have found the strongest evidence yet that cot death is caused partly by a genetic disorder, which may one day be treatable.

French President Jacques Chirac said today that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is “in no way whatsoever confirmed.”

An Arab television station has broadcast previously unseen footage of a smiling Osama bin Laden meeting the top planners of the September 11 attacks in an Afghan mountain camp and calling on followers to pray for the hijackers as they carried out the suicide mission.