The daughter of former US President George W. Bush has been hired by a US TV network as a Washington-based correspondent.

More than 1,000 delegates from the small- and medium-sized business sector across the globe are meeting in Belfast today to discuss how to maintain their competitiveness in the current economic downturn.

NASA’s Spirit rover yielded the sharpest picture ever taken of the surface of Mars, revealing in breathtaking detail a completely rust-coloured landscape strewn with rocks.