Former US President Ronald Reagan was a committed commentator on his own presidency, keeping meticulously-maintained diaries that recorded the stress of his work alongside his frustration with trying to keep peace in his own family, according to a newly published compilation of his writings.

MANY people feel Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed New Orleans and wrecked the Gulf Coast a year ago, has exposed a deep divide of race and poverty in the United States.

Editors at music bible Rolling Stone have published a note written by gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson days before he committed suicide in February.

ROLLING Stone, the magazine that was home for years to writer Hunter S Thompson, will publish a note written by the gonzo journalist days before he committed suicide in February.

Hunter S Thompson, the “gonzo journalist” with a penchant for drugs, guns and flame-thrower prose, might have one more salvo in store for everyone: friends and relatives want to blast his ashes out of a cannon, just as he wished.

WHERE did John Kerry spend Christmas of 1968? Vietnam, it seems. Which is not what he has been saying for 25 years.

AS FORMER US President Bill Clinton rushes to finish his memoirs, he faces the more pressing task of writing a book deemed worthy of all the attention, an accomplishment no president has pulled off since Ulysses S Grant.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush was thrust anew into the role of mourner-in-chief on Saturday with the loss of the space shuttle Columbia, offering words of comfort and hope in the face of national tragedy.