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.

A CANON lawyer seeking to have Senator John Kerry excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church because of his support for abortion rights said on Monday that he had ammunition in the form of a letter issued at the request of a senior Vatican official.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER has played the role of Hamlet more than the Terminator recently, deliberating whether to be or not to be a candidate for governor of California.