Doctors say it is unlikely that former US vice-president Dick Cheney got special treatment when he was given a new heart that thousands of younger people were also in line to receive.

Former US vice president Dick Cheney had a heart transplant, after five heart attacks over the past 25 years and countless medical procedures.

Dick Cheney played a pivotal role in the war on terror, and the US, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan paid a high price, writes TP O’Mahony.

THERE is real irony in the fact that as America marks the greatest terrorist outrage of modern times President Obama needs his Congress’s approval for a €325 billion plan to try to reduce his country’s 9.1% unemployment rate.

FORMER US vice-president Dick Cheney has said there is no contrad-iction in advocating harsh interrogation tactics against suspected US enemies and opposing those practices when used against its own citizens.

A film divided against itself cannot stand.

EVEN though the US presidential election is more than 12 months away, support for President Barack Obama has soared following the killing of Osama bin Laden.

GEORGE W Bush, all but invisible since he left the White House nearly two years ago, reclaimed the spotlight yesterday with the release of a new memoir defending his “war on terror” and the Iraq invasion.

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.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released from a suburban Washington hospital following heart surgery last month.

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has been admitted to the hospital after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old Republican leader who has a long history of heart disease.

The $20 billion it will cost BP to clean-up and compensate for the environmental and economic damage done by the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, would have been better spent on building alternative energy projects and funding research into clean technology.

Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault today against the giant US-run Bagram Air Field, the second Taliban strike at Nato forces in and around the capital in as many days.

One of Dick Cheney’s daughters said the former US vice president was recovering well from the mild heart attack that saw him taken to hospital last week.

An aide to Dick Cheney said the former US vice president was in George Washington Hospital after experiencing chest pains.

The US airline crew that overshot their destination by 100 miles had no idea anything was wrong until one of the cabin crew told them, investigation papers released today reveal.

Two pilots told investigators they were going over schedules using their laptop computers against company policy while their passenger jet overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles.

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan and urged President Barack Obama to "do what it takes to win".

SLEEP deprivation, “insult slaps”, water dousing and “walling”, or slamming a detainee’s head against a wall, were techniques used by CIA interrogators to “break” high-value detainees, according to an agency memo.

THE chairwoman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee said yesterday the Bush administration may have broken the law if it ordered the CIA to conceal the existence of a counter-terrorism programme.

CIA director Leon Panetta says it’s almost as if former vice-president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticising President Barack Obama for abandoning the “harsh interrogation” of terrorism suspects.

FORMER US Vice President Dick Cheney said the only alternative the Bush administration had to creating the Guantanamo Bay prison was to kill the terror suspects incarcerated there, and “we don’t operate that way”.

US VICE PRESIDENT Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, yesterday was forced to reject allegations he divulged the location of a secret bunker in Washington used by the vice president in the event of an emergency.

US President Barack Obama poked fun at himself speaking at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

President Barack Obama today declared the US lost its “moral bearings” with gruesome interrogations of suspected terrorists and left the way open to possible prosecution of those who authorised them.

Israel did not seek US approval before launching a ground invasion against Hamas, in an escalation of the bloodiest Israeli-Palestinian clash in years.

A judge in Texas has dismissed indictments against US Vice-President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

US Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on State charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.

BARACK OBAMA and John McCain were locked in a last-ditch fight for the key industrial states of Ohio and Pennsylvania yesterday as the race to the White House race appeared to be tilting to the Democratic candidate.

Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call from a Canadian comedian who posed as French president Nicolas Sarkozy and told her she would make a good US leader one day.

BARACK OBAMA and Dick Cheney are not the only political odd couple who share a family tree.

Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are not the only political odd couple who share a family tree.

I WAS interested to read that Charles ‘Chuckie’ Taylor Jnr, son of the former Liberian president of the same name, has been placed on trial in the United States for the crime of torture. This is a most welcome development.

US Vice President Dick Cheney said today that Russia's actions in the conflict with Georgia are an "affront to civilised standards" and "completely unacceptable".

Russia says it plans no military actions in response to the increased presence of US ships in the Black Sea.

US Vice President Dick Cheney today condemned Russia for what he called an “illegitimate, unilateral attempt” to change Georgia’s borders by force.

US Vice President Dick Cheney has arrived in Georgia, in a show of support for the South Caucasus nation and its pro-Western president.

The US will send an extra billion dollars to Georgia to help the pro-Western former Soviet republic in the wake of Russia’s invasion, President George Bush said today.

US President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will skip the Republican National Convention because of mounting concerns about Hurricane Gustav, the White House said today.

Hillary Rodham Clinton told an exuberant crowd she wanted Barack Obama to win the White House, saying that even though he dashed her presidential dream he is a better choice to lead America than Republican John McCain.

US vice president Dick Cheney’s office pushed to delete references about the consequences of climate change on public health from congressional testimony, in a bid to play down the effects of global warming, a former environment expert claims.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush has his eye firmly on history, believing he and his actions will be vindicated in the coming years and decades.

THIS could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt’s girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.