When they woke 75 years ago this morning, the people of Dresden were faced by “the opened gates of hell”.

Aides included a section in Mr Trump's briefing materials for the Tuesday morning call stating: "DO NOT CONGRATULATE," a senior administration official has said.

A convicted sex offender accused of murdering two young sisters who disappeared from a Maryland shopping centre is expected to plead guilty to the crime that has haunted the area for more than 40 years.

US president Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on e-commerce giant Amazon, saying the company is "doing great damage to tax paying retailers".

President Donald Trump had a second, previously undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Germany earlier this month.

US President Donald Trump's eldest son was reportedly told that the Kremlin was behind supposedly damaging information he received about Hillary Clinton.

President Donald Trump said the first day of his maiden international trip has been "tremendous".

Timothy L O’Brien asks why Donald Trump — via one of his top advisers — is so close to a violent fraudster with mob connections who has tried to influence US foreign policy.   

The tenth attack on home soil has moved French authorities to consider a major security overhaul, writes Aki Peritz

US multinationals shifted $100bn (€88bn) in income to Ireland in a single year, in order to lower their tax bills, a new study shows.

Apple is working on a fix for iMessage after researchers identified a flaw in its encryption system that meant hackers might be able to see your photos.

Donald Trump has been slammed for his “outrageous” behaviour after he appeared to mock a disabled reporter by imitating him.

An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, the state news agency said quoting the judiciary spokesman, a case that is a sensitive issue in contentious US-Iranian relations.

One parent said aye aye, they did…

The FBI has recovered emails from a private server used by Hillary Clinton while secretary of state that she said were deleted because they involved personal matters.

Author Harper Lee has said she is “happy as hell” about the publication of a sequel to her bestseller To Kill A Mockingbird after concerns were raised about the extent of her involvement in the project.

USA: A man faked a heart attack inside a Wal-Mart store in Florida so his friend could steal toys.

US federal agents conducted surprise inspections of National Football League team doctors and trainers on Sunday as part of an ongoing probe into painkiller drug abuse, the US media reported on Sunday.

The retired Navy SEAL who says he shot al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden in the forehead has publicly identified himself amid a debate among the special operations community about breaking silence about their secret missions.

Secret Service director Julia Pierson resigned yesterday in the face of multiple revelations about bumbling in her agency and rapidly eroding confidence that the president and his family were being kept safe.

Pharrell Williams' Grammy Awards hat will be displayed in a museum.

Protests in a US suburb rocked by racial unrest after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager has turned violent.

A Maryland woman charged with killing two of her children has told police officers she thought an exorcism was necessary to remove the presence of the devil and evil spirits.

Your career will last seven to ten years. If you’re lucky. There is a fair chance that you will struggle to adapt to the ‘real world’ once the boots are hung up and then there will quite possibly be physical repercussions too.

Silicon Valley has made the US a superpower of surveillance. No other country comes close, writes Raphael Satter.

A former vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information about a covert cyber-attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities

The US has asked for help from both enemies and uneasy allies in an effort to catch fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

Whistelblower Edward Snowden has apparently not caught the Cuban-bound flight he was due to leave Moscow on today.

Documents leaked by US former spy Edward Snowden appear to show that Britain spied on foreign delegates at the 2009 London G20 meetings, a newspaper has reported.

The Guardian newspaper in London says a 29-year-old American who works as a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA) is its source of leaks about the US government’s surveillance programmes.

Britain’s electronic eavesdropping agency GCHQ has been covertly gathering information from leading internet companies through a secret US spy programme.

Ireland will be able to maintain its current corporation tax code in the face of international pressure to prevent multinational corporations avoid paying their fare share of tax, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton said yesterday.

The army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in US history has pleaded guilty to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “bloodlust” and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The heartbroken husband of Savita Halappanavar has spoken of the days leading to her death.

Paul Ryan, a hero to conservatives and lightning rod for Democrats, accepted the Republican nomination as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate today, saying the moment for President Barack Obama's Democrats "came and went".

The race for the White House is tightening up, with President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney in a dead heat on the question of who could best fix the economy, a poll shows.

A major donor to Barack Obama has been accused of defrauding a businessman and impersonating a bank official, creating new headaches for the US president’s re-election campaign as it deals with the questionable history of another top supporter.

Fáilte Ireland says several high profile international TV shows and print media will be among the tens of thousands of overseas visitors soaking up the Saint Patrick's Day atmosphere in Dublin this weekend.

Republican candidates battled hard ahead of today’s key deep South votes as a poll said front-runner Mitt Romney would beat Democrat President Barack Obama if elections were held right now.