US President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union speech before the November election to paint himself as the champion of the middle class, by demanding higher taxes for millionaires and tight reins on Wall Street.

THE Indiana State Fair reopened yesterday after first pausing to remember five people killed in a stage collapse.

I CONGRATULATE the Irish Examiner for highlighting the fact that we are indeed a Prozac Nation (March 28).

A man who beat his ex-wife to death with an unloaded shotgun during an eight-hour leave from prison was executed early today in Indiana, hours after the state governor denied his request for clemency.

A man who spent nearly two decades on death row in the US for raping and killing a teenager was executed early today.