A US astronaut has divulged a litle known secret about space travel to a Limerick schoolboy.

Two astronauts made history today as the final spacewalkers of Nasa’s 30-year shuttle programme, completing construction of the International Space Station with the smooth addition of an extension boom.

The US Navy is shifting its European operational headquarters from London to Naples as part of the Pentagon’s strategy against new threats in the post-Cold War era.

Nato-led forces moved to separate ethnic Albanians and Serbs today to prevent a resurgence of attacks that killed 28 and wounded 600 in the worst spasm of violence in five years.

A US man has been shot dead in a row over a parking space.