Best-selling thriller author Tom Clancy has died in the US aged 66.

SUNDAY’S opening night at the Corona Cork Film Festival will see the screening of The Great Flood, a film-music collaboration between avant garde filmmaker Bill Morrison and pioneering musician, Bill Frisell.

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Hal David, whose simple, heartfelt lyrics made a perfect fit with Burt Bacharach’s quirky melodies and resulted in dozens of hit songs, including 'Do You Know The Way To San Jose' and 'Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head', has died at 91.

It’s not all leprechaun hats and ginger beards when it comes to US celebrations of St Patrick’s Day.

BAMBI, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.

THE last US veteran of World War I, who lied about his age to join the army in 1917, has died, ending America’s living connection with the Great War.

US President Barack Obama and his family were bouncing in their seats at a White House tribute concert for former Beatle Paul McCartney.

THE Obama administration is not fighting a nearly $500,000 (€352,542) judgment for a Library of Congress employee who lost the job while undergoing a gender change from a man to a woman.

A British internet entrepreneur accused software giant Apple today of “holding its customers to ransom” by apparently threatening to shut down its iTunes music download site.

Soul legend Stevie Wonder is to receive a prestigious honour from the US government for his lifetime of contributions to popular music.

ON ST Patrick’s Day 1977, four prominent Irish-American politicians issued a statement in Washington denouncing the violence in Northern Ireland.

IT’S fair to say that the tenor John McCormack is chiefly remembered today for his expert renditions of romantic ballads and religious hymns.

Google plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain, it was announced in the US today.

Stanley Kunitz, a former US poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner whose expressive verse, social commitment and generosity to young writers spanned three-quarters of a century, has died. He was 100.

A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks, a congressman has said.

Films teaching Cold War children to “duck and cover” during an atomic attack and describing how Oskar Schindler saved more than a thousand Jews from the Holocaust are being added to the US National Film Registry.

Admirers of Lewis Carroll’s fantasies for children can surf into a rare 21st-century wonderland: an online version of the author’s unpublished personal scrapbook.

The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, an 1888 recitation of the Lord’s Prayer and the original cast recording of Oklahoma! Are to be enshrined the US’s registry of historic sound.

American folk music pioneer and song collector Alan Lomax has died aged 87.

Efforts to build a national memorial honouring Martin Luther King Jr have stalled because the American civil rights leader’s family wants money to use his name and likeness in the marketing campaign.