The United States is seeking to extradite a young Irish man accused of being part of a hacking group known as “The Community” involved in alleged financial fraud and identity theft.

Reality check on fracking

A police officer, a paramedic, a rabbi, an airline pilot, an architect and a Boy Scout leader were among scores rounded up in one of New York’s largest internet child porn swoops, it has emerged.

An apparently insignificant money-laundering case taken against several Colombian men became one of the most important leads for US investigators pursuing a case against an international banking group, write Carrick Mollenkamp and Brett Wolf

A nine-year-old boy with a massive tumour was whisked from a gang-infested neighbourhood in Mexico by US agents and taken across the border for treatment in New Mexico.