The Federal Reserve should raise interest rates “in the coming months” if the economy picks up as expected and jobs continue to be generated, US central bank chief Janet Yellen said yesterday.

Yale University has decided to keep the name of a residential college which honours 19th-century alumnus John C Calhoun, an ardent supporter of slavery.

Tommy Gilbert Jr has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Tommy Sr, a rich Wall St investor. How did such a gilded life corrode? asks Lynnley Browning

Emma Watson said she is “so excited” to have been appointed the United Nation’s Women’s Goodwill Ambassador.

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has graduated from a US university.

Billy Beane, like Arsene Wenger, knows what it’s like to be at the sharp end of fans’ short-termism. But Mr Moneyball remains a fan and a disciple of the Arsenal manager

HE was a neat, quietly-spoken, witty, smallish man of Irish extraction who was liked wherever he went, in New York during the Roaring 20s. Not that he went that many places.

Harvard University yesterday reopened four buildings at the heart of its centuries-old campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that had been evacuated earlier after reports that explosives had been planted on the premises.

The all-clear has been given after report of gunshots at one of the US’s most prestigious universities.

CONGRATULATIONS, you’re going to college.

Abercrombie & Fitch plunged the most in more than 21 months after forecasting profit for the current quarter that was less than analysts estimated amid declining traffic at its stores.

A prequel to Monsters, Inc. (2001), the animated tale Monsters University (G) takes us back in time to discover how Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) became the fearsome, child-scaring beasts we all know and love.

Ben Affleck is getting an honorary degree from Brown University.

Emma Watson has admitted that she is obsessed with being perfect.

Edward Luce argues that America’s decline is rooted in cuts in public spending. Maura Adshead is convinced by the argument

THE ongoing fascination with lethal girls continues apace in Hanna (15A) in which Saoirse Ronan plays the eponymous heroine, a teenager raised in the wilds of Finland to become a ruthless assassin by her father, ex-black ops veteran Erik (Eric Bana).

Alec Baldwin has signed on to star in Woody Allen's forthcoming Rome-based film.

Police launched a murder probe after finding the body of a missing graduate student from an elite US university in a college building where she had last been seen five days before.

WHEN Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in today to the US Supreme Court, she’ll be able to claim two firsts: first Hispanic justice and first high court member to have her oath-taking made available to TV cameras.

Hollywood actor Denzel Washington is to be honoured for his work in helping black students complete their education.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faced the wrath of New Yorkers as he spoke at a prestigious Ivy League university today.

CHINESE President Hu Jintao wrapped up a four-day United States tour yesterday with a visit to Yale University.

Chinese President Hu Jintao wrapped up a four-day US tour today with a visit to Yale University, where he sought to quell fears about the international effects of his country’s booming economy and pledged continued cooperation with the United States.

Garth Brooks was first up on the radio programme after the news bulletin this weekend announcing the death of US Senator Eugene McCarthy.

A FORMER world soccer star faces off against a Harvard-educated woman in a heated brains-versus-brawn run-off tomorrow to decide Liberia’s first post-war president after a quarter century of coups and war.

A former world soccer star faces off against a Harvard-educated woman in a heated brains-versus-brawn run-off tomorrow to decide Liberia’s first post-war president after a quarter century of coups and war.

Hilary Duff is taking a break from performing so she can concentrate on being a student at Boston, Massachusetts' prestigious Harvard University.

Former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi and his nephew Salem – head of the tribunal trying Saddam Hussein – have dismissed charges against them as "ridiculous".

THE UCC football club will mark the conclusion of their celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the club’s foundation with matches against teams representing the famous Harvard and Princeton universities in America next week.

FEW Yale economics graduates follow the career path chosen by Dubliner Paul Coghlan when they successfully complete their studies. Certainly, he is in the fast lane, but it is not in the same way as his fellow students, who are aiming to make it big on Wall Street or in investment banking.

FBI agents were questioning students at the prestigious Yale University law school today, after an explosive device went off in an empty classroom.