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.

Rocker and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent has pleaded guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in Alaska, saying he was sorry for unwittingly violating the law.

The US Justice Department is to investigate the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a neighbourhood watch guard following a day of protests over the incident.

A self-styled Los Angeles entertainment entrepreneur has been charged with conning a woman identified as the ex-wife of actor Eddie Murphy out of $7m.

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 military contractor suspected of hacking into the teenage girls’ computers and threatening to post their personal information online unless they sent him revealing photos was arrested by US authorities.

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.

Hollinger Inc, a Canadian holding company formerly controlled by ousted media magnate Conrad Black, has signed a deal to cooperate with the US Attorney’s Office in its criminal prosecution of the former Daily Telegraph boss and several others.

A WATERFORD shipping agent accused of supplying boats to international drug dealers has pleaded with Spanish police to let him return to Ireland without seeking his arrest.

The husband of the woman accused of murdering a pregnant woman and cutting a baby from her womb said he thought the child was his wife’s.

A FATHER and son who ran a pleasure cruise in the US on which an Irish student drowned failed to call the coastguard for almost an hour after she fell overboard.

A MAN convicted of trying to sell moon rocks stolen from NASA over the internet has been jailed for nearly six years in Florida.

A man convicted of trying to sell moon rocks stolen from Nasa over the Internet has been jailed for nearly six years in Florida.

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.

Sixteen Cubans who were travelling aboard a Cuban airliner that was hijacked over the island nation and diverted to Key West, Florida, have returned home.

A BRITISH pensioner who was imprisoned in South Africa after the FBI mistook him for a dangerous fugitive broke down in tears as he told yesterday of his “enormous relief” at being released.

Mohamed al Fayed has launched a new legal bid to try to force US authorities to release documents surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and his son Dodi.

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.