Former President Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married this weekend.

A lawyer who lived three houses from former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary in a New York City suburb has been convicted of murdering his wife.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and chief negotiator Martin McGuinness have paid tribute to the role Bill and Hillary Clinton had played in assisting the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Bill Clinton's brother-in-law received nearly $400,000 for lobbying for a pardon that the former US President granted on his last day in office.