The New York Times said its Moscow bureau was targeted by a cyber attack this month but there was no evidence that the hackers, believed to be Russian, were successful.

The High Court has ordered the extradition to the United States of a Wicklow man alleged to have been an administrator of the Silk Road website that dealt with illegal drugs and hacking software.

A hot air balloon burst into flames over central Texas on Saturday, killing all 16 people aboard, in one of the deadliest such accidents on record. It apparently struck power lines.

Barack Obama carried out his presidencies with dignity and never embarrassed the country. Indeed there hasn’t been a tone-deaf moment in his two terms, and he will be missed, writes Elizabeth Drew

Hackers have leaked 22,175 FBI employees’ names, job titles and contact details.

A couple who massacred 14 people at a holiday party in California were discussing martyrdom online a year before they met in person and married, FBI director James Comey said.

A knife-wielding man killed by terror investigators had planned to behead an unidentified victim, then changed his mind and said he wanted to kill police officers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said.

A white South Carolina police officer has been dismissed from his job after being charged with murder for shooting an apparently unarmed black man in the back as he fled, the latest death that has brought protesters out to decry racism and police brutality in the United States.

Two people tried to run their vehicle through the National Security Agency’s gates yesterday before guards shot one of them dead. The vehicle’s second occupant and a police officer were injured, officials said.

US Drug Enforcement Administration agents had alleged “sex parties” with prostitutes over several years, a report stemming from a review of allegations of misconduct by several DEA agents in Colombia said.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he is not aware of any probe involving him and golfer Phil Mickelson regarding trades related to Clorox and Dean Foods, and called a report by the Wall Street Journal completely irresponsible.

US law enforcement authorities have shut down Silk Road, the web marketplace for illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine as well as criminal activities including murder for hire, and arrested its alleged owner, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said yesterday.

The two men accused of carrying out last week’s bombing of the Boston Marathon planned a second bomb attack on New York’s Times Square, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday.

FBI agents zeroed in on how the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out – with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel - but said they still did not know who did it and why.

Whitney Houston paid off a woman who blackmailed her about her love life.

Robin Gibb was the focus of an FBI investigation.

Kerryman Deaglán Ryan is fighting crime as an FBI Special Agent in New York. But it’s not very conducive to family life, he tells John Daly

Leonardo DiCaprio couldn’t put on as much weight as he wanted to play J. Edgar Hoover.

The FBI is reportedly "honing in" on a group of hackers who stole naked pictures of Scarlett Johansson from her phone.

Working with James ‘Whitey’ Bulger only ever ended one way, reports RYLE DWYER

FBI agents raided three hedge funds in what one of the targets called a wide-ranging probe of insider trading in the financial industry.

Writer-director Michael Mann’s film is a biopic of American Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger and his team of men who operated on the fringes of the law.

David Carradine's family fear he was murdered to silence his investigation into deadly underground martial arts organisations.

Fergie was so paranoid during her drug using days, she became convinced the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was stalking her.

A CONVICTED rapist who fled to the US six years ago was due in court today after being extradited from the US.

A RAPIST facing a lengthy prison sentence in Arbour Hill is the subject of major public hunt by America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The final pages of US government documents detailing John Lennon's left-wing activities in the early 1970s have been released following a 25 year legal battle.

AN Irish Muslim was refused just over €70 in cash by an international money transfer company because his name was similar to one on a terrorist list compiled by the United States Treasury Department.

CUBA lay behind the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald and its agents provided the gunman with money and support, an award-winning German director has claimed in a new documentary film.

President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should apologise for the possible involvement of their aides in the alleged illegal disclosure of a CIA undercover agent’s identity, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said today.

THE FBI said yesterday a grenade thrown at President Bush during a visit to Georgia last week had been a threat to the American leader and had only failed to explode because of a malfunction.

Dustin Hoffman has blasted US President George W Bush's Republican Party for manipulating the terrorist threat to undermine John Kerry's opposition campaign.

A senior US Homeland Security official briefed European travel industry representatives in Brussels on new entry controls that come into force today including mandatory fingerprinting and photography for European visitors.

THE FBI failed miserably over several years to reorganise and respond to a steadily growing threat of terrorism, the commission investigating the September 11 attacks said yesterday.

The FBI failed miserably over several years to reorganise and respond to a steadily growing threat of terrorism, the commission investigating the September 11 attacks said today.

A GUNMAN claiming to be a member of al-Qaida who held up to 16 people hostage inside a classroom was killed by police after he began firing his gun.

HURRICANE Isabel put the US capital in crisis mode yesterday, shutting the city’s metro for the first time, closing government offices and putting famous museums off-limits long before the storm hit.

US investigators have found what may be the first physical evidence in the anthrax attacks of 2001, in ponds in near

The terrorist group behind the Omagh bombing made several attempts to trace an FBI agent preparing to give evidence against its alleged leader, a top garda told Dublin's Special Criminal court 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.

A court heard today that the 1998 mass murder bomb attack on Omagh, Co Tyrone, was carried out jointly by the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA Irish Republican terror groups.

Two senior FBI witnesses are expected to attend the preliminary hearing of the alleged leader of the Real IRA Michael McKevitt, which gets underway today at the Special Criminal Court.