San Francisco has become the first major US city to ban fast-food restaurants from including toys with children’s meals that do not meet health guidelines.

Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan will today aim to forge new links with 'green tech' firms based in Silicon Valley in the US.

IN a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage yesterday, in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the US’s biggest state to tie the knot.

One police officer was suspended and others faced discipline after making videos that used racist, sexist and homophobic stereotypes, officials said.