Two people tried to run their vehicle through the National Security Agency’s gates yesterday before guards shot one of them dead. The vehicle’s second occupant and a police officer were injured, officials said.

That is the message that prosecutors will pound home today as five of Bernard Madoff’s long-time employees go on trial accused of enabling his $65bn Ponzi scheme.

A Scottish man living in Dublin is facing extradition to the US to face multiple charges of sending more than 40 email bomb threats to the University of Pittsburgh.

Six people have been arrested in Britain as part of an FBI-led sting targeting online financial fraudsters involved in the illegal trade of stolen bank and credit card information, according to the American authorities.

A US federal grand jury is investigating whether last year’s murder of a Kansas abortion doctor was connected to a broader case involving radical anti-abortion activists, a federal law enforcement official familiar with the case said.

A FORMER Irish priest accused of sexually assaulting six boys here between 1973 to 1981 has turned himself into the authorities in the US where he had been living in a plush waterfront suburb.

A father and daughter team showed “callous disregard” for thousands of British victims in a £35m (€45.6m) fraud scam, US authorities said.

United States and Argentine authorities were investigating how a stick of dynamite in a college student’s checked luggage ended up on a Houston-bound flight, one of seven security incidents that disrupted US flights in a day.

US federal prosecutors have asked a judge to delay his decision on a lawyer’s request for transcripts of interviews between journalists and an FBI mole.

Agents investigating a former top Northern Ireland civil servant facing child sex charges in Chicago have widened their inquiry to Florida and Britain, it was revealed today.