The father-of-two, aged 33 and from the Short Strand, was stabbed and beaten by IRA members outside Magennis’s bar in Belfast city centre in January 2005 and died the next day.

Achieving universal access to contraception would save and improve millions of lives, and put societies on a faster track to shared prosperity. The world should be devoting far more attention and resources to this goal, writes Bjørn Lomborg.

Boris Johnson could strike a chord with key sections of the electorate in the short-term before major damage is done. They will live to regret it, writes Andrew Hammond

Former US Secretary of State and the Democratic nominee for President in 2004, John Kerry, has ruled out putting his hat in the ring for the next Presidential race.

Donald Trump’s own landing on the Normandy beaches to commemorate D-Day will be launched from the links in Doonbeg, Co Clare.

US President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK was offered with exceptional speed, from a position of weakness, writes Martin Farr.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry will be a keynote speaker at a Cork conference on the so-called "blue economy" in June.

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Mr Trump thinks that ‘smoking’, as in the gun metaphor, is spelt ‘smocking’, making him this year’s leading contender for the Dan Quayle Potatoe prize, Best-in-Tweet class.

The pervasiveness of state-sponsored killings is no excuse for treating murder as acceptable, ever, writes Jeffrey D Sachs.

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A visit to Doonbeg by US president Donald Trump would present different security challenges to those raised by the visit of then president George W Bush to Dromoland Castle in 2004, according to the head of the Clare Garda Division.

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Trump has created another Charlottesville moment with how he apportions blame — and this time it was on a world stage, writes Eli Lake.

Donald Trump has pledged "strong action today" on immigration, a day after he said he wants to use the military to secure the US-Mexico border until his "big, beautiful wall" is erected.

He felt stung by the politics that helped define his life - but in death, the Rev Billy Graham received a rare tribute from America's top political leaders under the Capitol Rotunda in Washington DC.

Donald Trump’s spats with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un about the size of their nuclear buttons are reckless, while his desire to expand his nuclear arsenal is a departure from his predecessors and a contravention of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, says Jason Douglas

Donald Trump has said he wants to send man back to the moon - and on to Mars.

US President Donald Trump has picked a former top pharmaceutical and government executive to be his health and human services (HHS) secretary.

Legislative roadblocks to President Trump’s tax reform plans could bring US economic expansion

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described former US president George W Bush as bumbling and inept, criticising his "destructive" presidency from 2000-2008.

The American comic Reginald D Hunter has gone through a series of emotions since Donald Trump took office as the latest president of his country, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

A former US deputy secretary of state has warned against using "hot rhetoric" as international tensions over North Korea's missile testing continued to escalate.

President Donald Trump, leading his first commemoration of the 9/11 anniversary, has said "the living, breathing soul of America wept with grief" for each of the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on that day 16 years ago.

Predicting the future is no longer just the domain of fortune tellers and economists.

Trump’s doctrine to deepen US involvement in Afghanistan and pressurise Pakistan may set off a chain of events that are difficult to control, writes Shahid Javed Burki            

“Nineteen hyenas and a broken vacuum cleaner control the White House.”

Former US presidents George HW Bush and George W Bush have said "America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred in all forms".

In addition to contending with international crises involving North Korea, IS, Russia, and Syria, the NSC, which advises the president, is riven by infighting says Daniel R DePetris.

Donald Trump was speaking in his own words when he vowed to retaliate against North Korean aggression with "fire and fury", the White House has said.

Since 1991, and now including Donald Trump, US groups lobbying against carbon dioxide controls have relied on the research of two economists, says Benjamin Franta

US president Donald Trump plans to speak with German, French, and Italian officials ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies this week that could expose his sharp differences with world powers on trade and other issues.

So far 14 people have emerged as candidates to replace fired FBI Director James Comey.

Eight candidates for FBI director have been interviewed at Justice Department headquarters as US President Donald Trump suggested a decision on a nominee to replace Director James Comey could be announced within days.

Four candidates to replace James Comey as FBI director are set to be interviewed by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Four thousand of the wealthiest, most influential leaders in the world descend on Beverly Hills, California, this week for the annual Milken Institute Global Conference, in what amounts to a peer review of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.

America’s limited intervention won’t change the course of the Syrian war or temper Bashar al-Assad’s scorched earth policy against rebels and civilians, writes Mohamad Bazzi.

What will become of us now, The People Who Couldn’t Enjoy It? The people who almost wanted the flag to go up on Sergi Roberto, but who knew that it was never more certain that a flag would stay down, asks Larry Ryan

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Will this year’s Academy Award winners use their moment at the microphone to talk politics? Suzanne Harrington provides some inspiration and takes a look at the best – and worst – protest speeches.

President Donald Trump said Barack Obama's health care law covers "very few people" as he minimised the impact of replacing it.

Despite its reluctance to fly, the roadrunner is not in danger and Richard Collins tells us how the grounded bird keeps thriving.