THERE was glamorous Jackie, of course. And mother Rose, who nurtured his White House ambitions. And all the others: a movie star, a teenaged intern, a mistress with Mafia ties and more.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS is in hot water after a study suggested that watching just nine minutes of it can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.

A Belfast-born barrister today became the second person to be appointed straight from the Bar to the Supreme Court.

ONE week into the US general election race, the polls show a dead heat. But many US presidential scholars doubt that John McCain stands much of a chance, if any.

Actor Michael J Fox is appearing in adverts supporting the campaign for stem cell research.

The US' prisons are becoming major breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists, but states and local authorities are too cash-strapped to prevent or monitor recruiting, a new report says today.

An American television news correspondent who had reported on the deteriorating conditions in Iraq for three years was in critical but stable condition at a US military hospital in Germany today, a day after a car bomb killed two of her British colleagues.

University chiefs in Virginia said today a Rolling Stones concert was halted because police received a bomb threat specifically targeting the stage area.

MISSISSIPPI’S hurricane survivors fear their plight has been overshadowed by the focus on New Orleans.

HUMANS may have unwittingly saved themselves from a looming ice age by interfering with the Earth's climate, according to a new study.

Once hailed as a champion of democracy in a Caribbean country scarred by decades of dictatorships, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced to resign by an armed revolt and international pressure yesterday.

A new Board of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) with Dr Pat Fottrell as its chairperson has been appointed by the Tánaiste Mary Harney.

Evidence of a huge ancient lake covering more than a million square kilometres has been discovered on Mars.

A US federal appeals court has refused to let an Atlanta salvage company sell artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Titanic.