Trying to get her presidential campaign back on track, Hillary Clinton says she should have used a government email address while working as the nation’s top diplomat instead of a private one. The admission sought to quell a political furore some Democratic allies say she could no longer avoid.

CHELSEA CLINTON, the 29-year-old daughter of former US president Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.

The US government said today that former vice president Al Gore and the families of two reporters imprisoned in North Korea had asked ex-president Bill Clinton to go to Pyongyang to seek their release.

The UN will name Bill Clinton its special envoy to Haiti, his spokesman said, in a move that could capitalise on the former US president’s years of involvement with the impoverished nation to burnish the international body’s image there.

Ireland beat Wales 7-5 at the Clan Naofa Boxing club in Dundalk last Friday night in a keenly contested Boy 4 international.