FOR the tens of thousands of Central American unaccompanied children who have entered into the US in recent years, the journey doesn’t stop at the border: They must appear at an immigration hearing where a judge decides if they have legal relief to stay in the country.

If you’re knee deep in the Netflix series House of Cards like me and Barack Obama, then you’ll know the office of the Vice President of the United States of America has rarely enjoyed a more glamorous or salacious depiction of its daily agenda.

It is public art made of private wishes.

Lou Reed, the punk-poet of rock who influenced generations of musicians with the Velvet Underground and who remained a vital solo artist for decades, died yesterday at the age of 71.

After University Anne Marie worked as a film and TV producer in London.

It’s fairly safe to assume that if Kathy Switzer was running her first Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, she would have been held back from finishing, with thousands of others.

The Face of God

Peter Falk, the stage and movie actor who became identified as the squinty, rumpled TV detective in 'Columbo', has died.

IN THE heart of Upstate New York, where the accents and the temperatures begin to develop a more Canadian complexion, the Carrier Dome pops up out of the skyline of Syracuse’s southside, offering the prospect of some respite from the stubborn cold.

ALMOST one-in-three students at a Dublin college dropped out before reaching second-year — shocking new figures reveal.

IN many ways, today’s report from the Higher Education Authority showing higher dropout rates in various types of college, courses and student categories tells us very little that isn’t already known.

OPRAH WINFREY yesterday announced that her daytime television show will end its run in 2011after 25 seasons on the air.

Israel could face calls by the United Nations Security Council to refer alleged war crimes to the International Criminal Court in The Hague after a UN council backed a controversial report.

RONAN McGARRITY will be accorded a hero’s welcome when he lines out for Merry Monk Ballina against Limerick Lions in their first SuperLeague game of the new season tomorrow night.

Reigning Nivea For Men’s SuperLeague champions DART Killester open the 2007/08 campaign with a trip to UCD Marian on Thursday night, while University of Ulster begin their stint in the top division on Sunday.

President Mary McAleese is due to visit a number of Irish emigrant centres in New York today on the second leg of trip to the United States.

Bono and David Bowie were among friends, students and fans who left rocker Lou Reed visibly touched as he was honoured by New York's Syracuse University.

Veteran rocker Billy Joel roused a 5,000-strong crowd of American college graduates to their feet on Sunday when he encouraged them to follow their dreams.

Rap diva Lil’ Kim is facing a long prison sentenced after being convicted in New York of lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends who were involved in a shoot-out outside a radio station.

CELEBRITY socialite Paris Hilton, who shot to infamy after a raunchy sex video of her flooded the internet, is teaching girls how to behave and let their “inner heiress out”.

THE death of actor- turned-president Ronald Reagan has offered distraction to a country exhausted by months of grim news from Iraq and ripe for an outpouring of nostalgia, experts said yesterday.