Beauty houses are vying to sign up Caitlyn, the woman formerly known as Bruce Jenner, as the face of their make-up campaigns. Mac’s Viva Glam, which had associations with Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, is the likely winner . It’s been some week for transgender rights, says Suzanne Harrington

The internet has give rise to celebrities whose fame and achievements may have otherwise gone unknown in a previous age. Here is a look at some of those who have been made famous with the help of the web.

Peace campaigner Ruairí McKiernan spoke to Susan Manning, the mother of the US army whistleblower formerly known as Bradley, about her son’s actions

Barack Obama has stated that the Syrians have crossed the red line in using chemical weapons.

Convicted US secrets leaker Chelsea Manning is seeking a presidential pardon.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has asked Swedish police to investigate what happened to a suitcase he suspects was stolen from him by intelligence agents as he travelled from Sweden to Germany in 2010.

Al Qaeda and other hostile groups have repeatedly sought to infiltrate US intelligence agencies, which are investigating thousands of their staff to counter the threat, The Washington Post has reported.

Demonstrators will gather at The Spire in Dublin today to call for the US government to release whistleblower Chelsea Manning.

Whistleblower soldier Bradley Manning decided to announce that she wanted to live as a woman the day after she was sentenced because a military prison said it would not provide hormone treatment, her lawyer said.

It is still unclear if Chelsea Manning will be able to serve her sentence in a US military prison as a woman.

Bradley Manning says he plans to live as a woman and begin hormone therapy, a day after the soldier was sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified information to WikiLeaks.

The Irish Anti War Movement is holding a protest outside the US Embassy in Dublin this evening calling for Chelsea Manning to be released.

Bradley Manning, who was yesterday sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks, said she plans to live out her life as a woman.

US soldier Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.

US soldier Bradley Manning has been jailed for 35 years for giving hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic secrets to the WikiLeaks website.

The US military judge considering the sentence of soldier Bradley Manning for the largest leak of classified information in the country’s history says it will be announced at 1500 IST on Wednesday.

The enormous leak of classified information engineered by Bradley Manning was “heedless” and “imminently dangerous to others”, a military judge has said.

The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denied speculation that the American whistleblower Edward Snowden was interrogated by Russian authorities.

US soldier Bradley Manning took the stand during his sentencing hearing for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks and apologised for hurting the United States and others.

Those who regarded conspiracy theorists as crazies must surely have to rethink their position in light of recent events.

A military judge has reduced US army whistleblower Bradley Manning’s maximum possible sentence in the WikiLeaks case to 90 years in prison.

“JANET! Why shouldn’t we have a Secret Society, too?’ said Peter.”

Lawyers for whistleblower soldier Bradley Manning are seeking to reduce his potential sentence by having some of his convictions merged.

Whistleblower soldier Bradley Manning is facing a substantial prison term today, despite being acquitted by a US military court of the most serious charge against him – aiding the enemy.

A military judge yesterday acquitted former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning of the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy, but convicted him of espionage, theft and computer fraud charges for giving thousands of classified secrets to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.

A military judge has acquitted former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning of the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy, but convicted him of espionage, theft and computer fraud charges for giving thousands of classified secrets to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.

US soldier Bradley Manning, charged with passing US government secrets to WikiLeaks, is about to learn his fate.

The United States has made a formal promise to Russia not to torture or execute Edward Snowden if he is sent home to face charges of illegally disclosing government secrets, and the Kremlin said Russian and US security agencies are in talks over his fate.

A military judge has refused to dismiss a charge that a US army private aided the enemy by giving reams of classified information to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

A prequel to Monsters, Inc. (2001), the animated tale Monsters University (G) takes us back in time to discover how Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) became the fearsome, child-scaring beasts we all know and love.

Intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied for asylum in 21 countries, the WikiLeaks website said today.

The Taoiseach and sections of the media may want to pull the wool over people’s eyes, but in reality, Obama is no friend of the Irish people, writes Clare Daly

Over the last decade we have witnessed the results of effectively giving unfettered power to particular groups in the economy and how society as a whole is the worse for the experience.

A huge database of troop names and email addresses a US army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyber attacks on service members, a government witness said as the trial of Bradley Manning entered its third week.

The former CIA agent who revealed himself as the source of top-secret leaks about US surveillance programmes has dropped out of public sight.

A one-time computer hacker who told authorities private first class Bradley Manning was giving information to WikiLeaks testified yesterday that the soldier never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats.

A one-time computer hacker who told authorities that a US soldier was giving information to WikiLeaks has testified that the Army private never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats.

Bradley Manning put military secrets into the hands of Osama bin Laden himself, US prosecutors said, as the army intelligence analyst went on trial for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents.

Bradley Manning goes on trial today more than three years after he was arrested in Iraq and charged in the biggest leak of classified information in US history.

The US government will accept an army private’s guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces for sending more than 700,000 classified US documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, a military prosecutor said during a pre-trial hearing today.

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.

A soldier arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in US history, gave the first detailed explanation of his actions today, offering to plead guilty to charges that could send him to prison for 20 years and saying he spilled the secrets to expose the American military’s “bloodlust” in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A soldier charged in the biggest leak of classified material in US history has offered guilty pleas to 10 of 22 charges against him.

The trial of the soldier charged with leaking thousands of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website has been postponed to June.