Rosa Parks’ body has been returned to the city she called home, with thousands waiting in a line more to pay their final respects to the US civil rights leader.

MORE than 30,000 Americans streamed through the US Capitol Rotunda to pay tribute yesterday to Rosa Parks, filing by her casket in hushed awe of the woman whose defiant act on a city bus inspired the modern civil rights movement.

NEARLY 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on an Alabama, bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.

Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern US civil rights movement, died at age 92.

The US House of Representatives yesterday voted overwhelmingly to extend the USA Patriot Act, America’s main anti-terrorism tool, just hours after television news beamed images of an attempted bombing attack in London.

AMID new questions about US President George W Bush's determination to remove Saddam Hussein as Iraq's president, several US Democrats have called for an official inquiry to determine whether he intentionally misled Congress.

Amid new questions about George Bush’s determination to remove Saddam Hussein as Iraq’s president, several US Democrats have called for an official inquiry to determine whether the President intentionally misled Congress.

NOT in Ukraine, but in the USA. As an American citizen living in Ireland, I cannot believe the Irish media’s silence on the voting irregularities in the US presidential election.