The North’s first and deputy first ministers will meet US president Barack Obama during the St Patrick‘s Day celebrations in Washington today.

Microsoft is investing heavily in research and development as it prepares for a software revolution, Bill Gates told the North's Economy Minister Nigel Dodds at a meeting in the US today.

THE family of murdered Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney will hand over a dossier on his killing to US President George Bush when they meet him in the White House tomorrow.

The leaders of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government were today holding talks with New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other US politicians on the second day of their visit to Washington.