The former US first lady Nancy Reagan died in California yesterday at the age of 94. 

Former US first lady Nancy Reagan has died in California at the age of 94.

First lady Melania Trump.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will not attend Baroness Thatcher’s funeral due to health problems, his spokesman said today.

THE LAUNCH of Oscar de la Renta’s new bridal fragrance in New York last month was a modest affair, unremarkable even, in that the scent was predictably lovely, the bottle predictably elegant and the Perrier-Jouët champagne predictably moreish, at least for the handful who indulged.

Former US first lady Nancy Reagan was said today to be recovering slowly after breaking her ribs in a fall.

Jane Fonda is to play Nancy Reagan in 'The Butler'.

FESS PARKER, who launched a craze for coonskin caps while playing famous American pioneers Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, has died of natural causes. He was 85.

TED KENNEDY was both the most loved and one of most hated and divisive politicians in the United States. Republicans frequently depicted him as the embodiment of evil and amorality, as well as a relic of the self-indulgent liberalism of the 1960s.

A cool sea breeze provided some relief for US firefighters battling a blaze which has destroyed scores of homes in California, but they feared dry inland winds could return to stoke the fire today.

In a clear rebuke to his White House predecessor, President Barack Obama declared he will not allow politics to taint science and signed an executive order to allow funding of broader research into stem cells.

President Barack Obama today overturned a ban on federal funding for stem cell research, reversing the policy of his predecessor.

Barack Obama will lift George Bush’s restrictions on government funding for stem cell research.

US President-elect Barack Obama called the late President Ronald Reagan’s widow, Nancy Reagan, to apologise for joking that she had held seances in the White House.

Former first lady Nancy Reagan has been released from a Los Angeles hospital where she was treated for a fractured pelvis.

Former US First Lady Nancy Reagan has been taken to hospital in Los Angeles with a broken pelvis.

Nancy Reagan had to spend the night in hospital after falling in her home in Bel-Air, California.

Lady Bird Johnson, America’s former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, Lyndon Johnson, has died.

Former US President Ronald Reagan was a committed commentator on his own presidency, keeping meticulously-maintained diaries that recorded the stress of his work alongside his frustration with trying to keep peace in his own family, according to a newly published compilation of his writings.

Zsa Zsa Gabor once said: “Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.”

US president George Bush hailed Gerald Ford for his administration's honour. Ford's former opponent, ex-president Jimmy Carter, called him "a man of highest integrity". Nancy Reagan praised his dedication to the country.

The White House today defended Laura Bush’s decision not to disclose she had a skin cancer tumour removed from her right shin last month.

US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey will see her life detailed on paper when celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley pens her memoirs.

Nancy Reagan, the wife of former US President Ronald Reagan, was taken to hospital after suffering a fall at a London hotel early this morning, a spokeswoman said.

A small plane strayed within three miles of the White House, leading to frantic evacuation of the Executive Mansion and the Capitol with military jets scrambling to intercept the aircraft and firing flares to steer it away.

Hollywood legend Charlton Heston's family and friends are shocked by the speed of his mental and physical decline, as his Alzheimer's disease worsens.

Senator John Kerry has opened narrow leads in Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and a handful of other battleground state polls since accepting the Democratic nomination, increasing pressure on President George Bush to regain lost ground at the Republican National Convention.

Ron Reagan, the younger son of the late US President Ronald Reagan, has criticised George Bush’s foreign policy, saying Americans were misled into supporting the Iraq war.

WASHINGTON’S National Cathedral will resound to the voices of three Irish tenors today.

THE body of former US President Ronald Reagan, escorted by Nancy Reagan and his children, began its journey to the capital, Washington, yesterday for national memorial services.

Nancy Reagan offered a touching tribute to her late husband today, writing: “I think they broke the mould when they made Ronnie.”

THERE was something homely looking about President Ronald Reagan when he appeared at the door of his Marine One helicopter which landed in the football field in Ballyporeen exactly 20 years ago this past weekend.

RONALD REAGAN'S fierce protector was there to the end.

AMERICA mourned former President Ronald Reagan yesterday as preparations began in Washington for a state funeral for the man who won the Cold War and the hearts of countless Americans as the "Great Communicator".

THE Tipperary parish that US President Ronald Reagan called home is to commemorate his passing by opening a book of condolence to be signed by members of the public.

Veteran film star Kirk Douglas and wife Anne said “I do” for the second time in 50 years at a hilltop mansion, renewing the marriage vows the couple first took when they eloped to Las Vegas in 1954.

THE man who tried to kill Ronald Reagan won permission for un-monitored daytrips with visits to with his parents, a decision criticised by the former president’s family.

THE new aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan, has saluted Ballyporeen, the ancestral home of the former American president whose name it proudly bears.

If admirers of former US President Ronald Reagan didn’t like a television movie about him after reading leaked snippets of a script, their opinion isn’t likely to change after seeing the final product.

Nancy Reagan is said to be anguished and "hurt" by an American TV portrayal of her husband’s time in the White House.

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has admitted he was surprised by the effectiveness of Saddam Hussein’s loyalists to sustain the Iraq conflict long after the end of major combat operations.

WHILE recuperating from an assassination attempt in 1981, President Reagan wrote a heartfelt four-page letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, asking if they could work together to reduce the tensions between their nations, according to a new book about Reagan’s letters.

Actress Judy Davis is in final talks to star as former first lady Nancy Reagan in what is sure to be a controversial four hour mini-series about Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Cherie Blair was today joining Cabinet ministers for a Downing Street event to highlight the oppression of women and girls under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.