In her new book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali breaks with centuries of political orthodoxy and says Islam must adapt and divorce itself from acts of terrorism. TP O’Mahony reports

Forget America’s fiscal cliff, Europe’s currency troubles, or the emerging-markets slowdown.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has raised the prospect of Irish troops serving many years in war-torn Chad.

THE European Union will have a more powerful say in world affairs if the Lisbon treaty comes into effect, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said.

America’s top soldier in Iraq said the war and the wider battle against extremists in the Middle East was the defining conflict of the generation, and one from which the United States and its allies could not afford to walk away.