Senator Edward Kennedy took the helm of his sailboat Mya in a regatta, just a week after undergoing a brain biopsy that diagnosed him with cancer.

Mark Warner’s decision to bow out of the early US presidential race leaves a field still crowded with Democrats competing to be the most attractive alternative to front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

AT about this time every year the US media looks for stories about Ireland.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern met the Bush administration for talks which included the effect of the Northern Bank robbery on the North's peace process.

Traces of anthrax bacteria have been found in the mailrooms of two more senators.

A letter to US Senator Patrick Leahy was laced with billions of anthrax spores, authorities said, as a suspected case of the most deadly form of the disease mysteriously appeared in Connecticut.