As a teenager, Maura was a servant in a big house.

The shortlist for the €100,000 IMPAC award for literary fiction was revealed this morning, says Carl Dixon

The New York Police Department monitored Muslim students at universities far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, it has emerged.

WHEN the topic turns to school violence, Tom Mauser usually lectures about guns.

Hulking security guards standing at the side of New York’s Hunter College lecture hall offered a big hint that the course’s usual professor might be taking the afternoon off.