Christine Lagarde and Jim Yong Kim tell of the IMF and World Bank Group’s efforts to encourage member nations to adopt climate-friendly levies and policies

After 43 years in prison and 30 parole hearings, US parole officials have again decided it is safe to free Charles Manson follower Bruce Davis.

Despite a devastating four-year drought that has forced strict water conservation measures across California, most Los Angeles County supervisors have their cars washed two or three times a week, a newspaper reported.

Will chronic water shortages kill the California dream? by Elijah Wolfson

AMERICA’S guitar-and-chorus chronicler of the Great Depression, the Dustbowl, and social injustice, Woody Guthrie, once described California as “a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see...” and even if he was warning those forlorn, destitute farmers fleeing the Midwest’s Dustbowl not to go to California, he could hardly have imagined that something approaching a Dustbowl catastrophe might hit the Golden State. 

US civil rights leaders are calling for an independent investigation into the fatal police shooting of a homeless man.

The European Union's competition watchdog says tax rebates that Ireland granted Apple appear to amount to illegal state aid and may have to be recouped.

A bill that makes California the first US state to define when “yes means yes” and adopt requirements for colleges to follow when investigating sexual assault reports has been signed into law.

I’VE surprised myself by feeling a little sorry for former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely this week.

Enterprise chiefs have defended luring companies to Ireland after US president Barack Obama accused multinationals of relocating to exploit unpatriotic tax loopholes.

The appointment of Martin Shanahan to lead the IDA comes at a time of global economic change, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

A creative, relevant and agile government response is required to the tax probe launched by the EU into Apple, the concerns of the US Senate and the widely reported comments of governor Jerry Brown of California.

Ireland is set to be a beneficiary of the crackdown on tax regimes, according the Minister for Enterprise and Jobs, Richard Bruton, despite the comments from the California Governor, Jerry Brown that Ireland allowed "creative accounting".

California governor Jerry Brown has signed a first-of-its-kind state law criminalising what has become known as ‘revenge porn’, the distribution of private, explicit photos of other people on the internet, usually by ex-lovers or spouses, to humiliate them.

California teenagers who post photographs of themselves wearing too little clothing or having had too much to drink will have the legal right to erase their online indiscretions under first-of-its-kind legislation.

An appeal court has sided with California and upheld the first law in America banning psychological treatment that seeks to turn gay youths straight.

The winners in the US Supreme Court case that overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall yesterday, about an hour after a federal appeals court freed same-sex couples to obtain marriage licences for the first time in four years.

A US appeal court has blocked a first-of-its-kind California law that bans therapy aimed at turning gay youngsters straight.

ESPN has to be careful how it goes at the best of times.

California will become the first US state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight.

California will become the first US state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight.

Crowds gathered along San Francisco's waterfront and the bay was crowded with pleasure boats, tugs and other vessels as the city celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.

GOVERNOR Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday commuted the manslaughter sentence of the son of California’s former Assembly speaker hours before leaving the office, drawing criticism from the victim’s family.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is sifting through a stack of corporate, Hollywood and property offers as the celebrity politician nears an inevitable career crossroads: on Monday, he’s out of a job.

CALIFORNIA’S election of Democrat Jerry Brown as governor was an extraordinary political encore, letting him reclaim the office he held a generation ago.

Republicans captured Democratic governorships in at least 10 states, including some prime presidential battlegrounds, and hoped for even more gains.

Attorney general Jerry Brown, the Democratic candidate for governor in California, is demanding that executions resume in the state as soon as next week in a push that marks a significant change of heart for the former outspoken death penalty opponent.

California's highest court refused to order Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state's attorney general to appeal against a federal ruling that overturned the state's gay marriage ban.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and attorney general Jerry Brown have filed legal motions calling for same-sex weddings to resume in the state.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt has ended his bid to be California governor to tend to his ailing wife.

Lindsay Lohan does not have a “pillow to sleep on” in jail, according to her mother.

US investigators probing the death of Michael Jackson have decided not to file charges against seven doctors who treated him, authorities said.

Doctor Conrad Murray will not take a plea bargain in the case of Michael Jackson’s death.

Michael Jackson’s father is planning to sue the singer’s doctor for wrongful death.

Michael Jackson’s doctor halted CPR on the dying pop star and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to documents that shed new light on the singer’s chaotic final moments.

The late actor Corey Haim had a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said was obtained through a major drug ring.

The sponsors of Proposition 8, which outlawed gay unions in California, asked the California Supreme Court yesterday to nullify the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who exchanged vows before voters approved the ballot initiative.

The California attorney general has changed his position on the state’s new same-sex marriage ban and is now urging the Supreme Court to void “Proposition 8”.

The state attorney general and sponsors of the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California urged its Supreme Court to hear a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn the ban, saying the matter is too urgent to be unsettled.

Raids have been carried out on the US homes and offices of the doctors who prescribed drugs to former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, who died of an overdose.

Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, says he is encouraged by the recent attention George W Bush has paid to the Northern Ireland peace process.