Bosnia and Herzegovina: Hundreds of Sarajevo taxi drivers have stuck posters of Robert De Niro on their cabs in tribute to the actor who will open the city’s film festival on Friday with a screening of Taxi Driver.

Donald Trump once promised a “showbiz” convention, packed with flash, celebrities, and a “winner’s night” featuring sports stars and champion coaches.

A gunman who murdered three Louisiana police officers in an ambush "was seeking out police", investigators have confirmed.

A masked former US Marine murdered three Louisiana police officers in an apparent petrol station ambush, less than two weeks after a black man was shot dead in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated throughout America.

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Following acclaimed performances in Homeland and Wolf Hall, Damian Lewis is now tackling the world of finance, writes Gemma Dunn

The Pentagon is moving to increase the number of American troops in Iraq in the wake of new strikes that killed the Islamic State's finance minister and other top leaders of the terror group.

What’s going on this weekend

One Marine was killed and 21 other people taken to hospital after a US Marine Corps Osprey aircraft crashed in Hawaii, with dark smoke from the resulting fire billowing into the sky.

Hundreds of Nepali troops yesterday searched for a missing US Marine helicopter with eight people on board, a day after a second powerful earthquake in less than three weeks killed more than 60 people.

Eddie Ray Routh has begun a life sentence in prison without the possibility of parole after a Texas jury found him guilty of murdering Chris Kyle, the former US Navy SEAL whose autobiography was turned into the hit movie American Sniper.

Prosecutors rested their case in the trial of a former US Marine charged with killing American Sniper author Chris Kyle and another man.

A former US Marine accused of killing American Sniper author Chris Kyle and another man told police he had “taken a couple of souls” and had more to claim, a court heard.

A woman whose relatives were killed in a 1966 sniper rampage at the University of Texas that left 16 people dead says she is horrified that the high-powered rifle used by the gunman is being sold in an online auction.

Homeland may have lost its sleeper terrorist anti-hero Nicholas Brody to an Iranian gallows, but the hit US television show will continue to thrill, its creator says.

A Carlow woman who was molested by her uncle as a child has waived her right to anonymity so “the world can know he is a child abuser”.

A Thai court has sentenced a British kickboxer to 25 years in jail for the 2010 murder of a former US Marine on a resort island.

One of the strongest storms on record killied more than 100 people whose bodies lay in the streets of one of the Philippines’ hardest-hit cities.

Pupils cowered in fear and pleaded for their lives as a 12-year-old boy went on a rampage with a handgun in the US, waving the weapon at classmates and shooting dead a maths teacher.

A former US Marine who spent three months in Ireland on an outdoor adventure course faces charges of kidnap and murder.

Six Russians were killed and two others were injured when their snowmobile slammed into a fence and flipped over into a ditch during a night run down an Italian ski slope.

A US Marine staff sergeant who urinated on dead Taliban insurgents and posed for photographs with the bodies has pleaded guilty to two charges in a military court, the Marine Corps said.

Lebanon’s tourism minister is considering suing the makers of the hit US TV series Homeland over the way Beirut is portrayed.

Lebanon’s tourism minister is considering suing the makers of the hit US TV series 'Homeland' over the way Beirut is portrayed.

An ex-US Marine who had suffered from depression and once tweeted about killing “everyone I see” opened fire in camouflage gear at a supermarket, gunning down two co-workers before killing himself.

A supermarket employee wearing military clothing opened fire at the store early today, killing two of his colleagues then himself.

Iranian state television showed several Iranians alleged to be part of a group of 13 who “confessed” to killing four Iranian nuclear scientists after being trained by Israeli intelligence.

A former US Marine has told investigators he deserves the death penalty for the fatal stabbing of four California homeless men as part of a planned killing spree and says he believed he has the “killer gene”.

A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere.

SATURDAY

A US Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children has pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty in a deal that ends the largest and longest-running criminal case against US troops to emerge from the war.

FACED with a barrage of criticism when it chose a panda as one of it’s 12 female “faces of the year 2011”, a haughty BBC spokesperson wondered what all the fuss was about.

AN Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported, in a case adding to the accelerating tension between the United States and Iran.

An American has been sentenced to death by an Iranian court which convicted him of being a CIA spy, adding to the growing tension between the countries.

Iran is seeking the death penalty for an American man accused of working for the CIA.

AN Iraq war veteran badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police was upgraded to fair condition yesterday as activists called for a general strike against the Bay Area city.

SO, George Clooney, what are you doing Saturday night?

Hurricane Tomas pushed northward from Haiti, leaving villagers to mop up, evacuees to return to their tents and almost everyone relieved that the country did not suffer what could have been its first big disaster since the January earthquake.

SO there it all was in your issue of Friday, August 21 ... the end of US combat missions in Iraq and the return home of thousands of US soldiers to their families and loved ones.

Elite US Marine reconnaissance teams were dropped behind Taliban lines by helicopter today as coalition forces stepped up operations in Afghanistan to break resistance in the besieged insurgent stronghold of Marjah.

The Taliban’s top military commander has been captured in Pakistan, it was reported today.

Sometimes Hollywood can surprise us with adult films based on strong writing and quite excellent performances all achieved without OTT special effects, computer enhancements and wild, violent action.

MY response to Patrick Dolan’s question (Letters, January 18) concerning who will be of the most benefit to Haiti quake victims — “the trained killers or the trained curers” — is one of incredulity.