The parents of an Irish American US Navy Seal who was killed in action in Afghanistan a decade ago, and whose story inspired a Hollywood movie, have expressed delight at an Irish group’s decision to honour his memory.

Jordan has launched 56 airstrikes against Islamic State group weapons depots, training centres and military barracks since militants released a video of them burning a Jordanian pilot to death, Jordan’s airforce chief said yesterday.

A man shot six people, killing four of them, including his ex-wife and several children before turning the gun on himself on a quiet, suburban street outside Atlanta.

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Police in California have defended their decision to release details about how actor Robin Williams died, saying state law required that they be disclosed to the public.

The children of actor Robin Williams have paid tribute to their father after his tragic death.

Fires continued burning nearly 24 hours after a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in eastern Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a town centre and killed at least one person.

THE term provenance in the antique world basically means the earliest known, proven history of something and it comes from the French word provenir to ‘come-forth’.

IN RECENT years there has been outrage following reports into clerical abuse, as well as the publication of the recent report into the behaviour at Magdalene Laundries.

The man carjacked by Christopher Dorner on a rural mountain road spoke of his ordeal at the hands of America’s most wanted man.

Evidence has been found that could help explain the motives of the lone gunman behind one of the worst mass school shootings in American history, police said today.

Suspected Muslim insurgents have staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand’s restive south, killing 14 people and injuring 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists.

A third day of searching has failed to locate the bodies of five fishermen missing after their trawler sank off West Cork.

Seven people believed to be related were gunned down as they cleared up after opening their Christmas gifts at a Texas apartment.

There was a systemic failure to respond to the threats facing peacekeeping personnel, a new report into the deaths of three Irish soldiers in Lebanon has stated.

IRELAND marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks with a simple yet moving ceremony hosted by the US embassy in Dublin.

IT’S a far cry from the steamy tropical surroundings of South Florida or the gritty mean streets of New York but a state-of-the art forensic lab — CSI Kildare, if you will — is to be developed in Celbridge.

Paris Hilton told police who arrested her for cocaine possession that rolling papers, $1,300 and several credit cards were hers – but not the purse they were in nor the bag of white powder that fell out of it, it emerged today.

Rescue crews were searching today for two passengers missing after an amphibious sightseeing boat in the Delaware River off Philadelphia was struck by a barge, hurling 37 people overboard.

US authorities ended an exhaustive weeklong search on the property where a Northern California girl was allegedly held captive for 18 years.

A suicide car bomber in eastern Afghanistan killed 20 civilians and a US soldier today, a US military spokesman said.

A series of operations by US forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an al-Qaida leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants, the coalition said today.

A BRUISED and starving seven-year-old girl walking alone on a gravel road led investigators to an even grimmer discovery: remains in a basement freezer that her adoptive mother said were the youngster’s sisters.

A former driver for Osama bin Laden knew the target of the fourth hijacked plane on September 11 2001, his war crimes trial was told.

Deadly Typhoon Fengshen was heading for Taiwan and south-east China today after leaving a trail of destruction in the Philippines where hopes faded of finding more survivors from a capsized passenger ship.

The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees, a military defence lawyer said.

HUNDREDS of pupils got that Top Gun feeling when a multi-million euro helicopter landed in their schoolyard yesterday.

In a stunning turnaround, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay says he will be a defence witness for the driver of terror chief Osama bin Laden.

Dozens of people are fighting for their lives today after an explosion and fire rocked a sprawling Georgia sugar refinery.

THE crew of a trawler got an unwelcome catch yesterday when they scooped up an unstable World War II German mine, which was capable of sinking a large ship.

A rush-hour crawl that gave vehicles little momentum to slide into the river and a bridge design that minimised falling debris appear to have kept the death toll relatively low in the collapse of a bridge into the Mississippi River.

A 19-year-old woman’s 911 emergency call from the scene of the Virginia Tech shootings was published today.

Iran said tonight it hoped to resolve the seized British Navy personnel crisis using diplomacy and without putting the captives on trial.

A newborn baby kidnapped from a Texas hospital by a woman posing as a medical worker was found safe early today in a New Mexico hospital, police said.

More than three dozen people were killed in violence around Iraq today, including a state TV employee, a judge and three people in a morning suicide attack on a fish market in Baghdad that wounded 19 others.

LIEUTENANT Yaron Genkin never saw the Hezbollah guerrillas he and his men were fighting.

A string of early morning bombings near a technology university in Baghdad today killed five people and injured 18 others, police said.

The family of a missing fisherman whose boat suddenly capsized off the Wexford coast will have to wait until the weekend for navy dive teams to complete their search, it emerged today.

A US Chinook helicopter that crashed in eastern Afghanistan may have been shot down by hostile fire, and the fate of 17 American service members aboard was unclear, the US military said today. The Taliban claimed it attacked the aircraft.

A US freight train carrying chlorine gas struck a parked train, killing eight people and injuring more than 240 others, nearly all of them sickened by a toxic cloud that persisted over this small textile town of Graniteville, South Carolina.

Further details of the fire which crippled a Canadian submarine and claimed the life of one of its seamen, as well as the heroic rescue effort to return the vessel and its crew safely to shore, were expected to emerge today.

A rescue operation to tow a stricken Canadian submarine to safety started tonight, as a second crewman remained in a critical condition.

A huge bomb exploded near the Australian embassy in Indonesia’s capital today, killing at least four people and injuring nearly 100.

A CARDINAL mentioned as a candidate to be the next Pope sent a fugitive priest accused of molesting an altar boy in Costa Rica to work in two remote parishes in Honduras, it was reported yesterday.