Timothy L O’Brien says describing Donald Trump’s racist baiting of four new Democratic congresswomen of different ethnic backgrounds as ‘strategic’ gives him too much credit.

Hiring a cleaner can go a long way towards a harmonious home by relieving the stress associated with who does what around the house, writes Arlene Harris.

An explosion at a suburban Minnesota mosque was caused by a bomb thrown through a window as people were preparing for morning prayers, an official said.

Gardaí were last night expected to further extend the detention of a woman arrested in connection with the murder of a toddler at an apartment complex in south Dublin last Monday.

Survivor of the Orlando Massacre Alejandro A. Francisco has penned an articulate and thought-provoking letter to killer Omar Mateen which has caused waves across the world.

Survivor of the Orlando Massacre Alejandro A. Francisco has penned an articulate and thought-provoking letter to killer Omar Mateen which has caused waves across the world.

Last Monday, Adare, Co Limerick, remembered Jerry McCabe on the 20th anniversary of the IRA attack which claimed his life near the village post office. Yesterday, his own people and hundreds of others gathered in Ballylongford, Co Kerry, where he was brought up to pay their tribute.

A suicide bomber has targeted a vehicle carrying court employees in Kabul, killing 10 people.

This haunting video features a poem written by a 15-year-old Syrian boy, Omar.

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on young Muslim men in the US and other Western countries to carry out attacks inside there and urged greater unity between militants.

The Taliban have chosen late supreme leader Mullah Omar’s longtime deputy to replace him, two militant commanders announced, as Pakistan said peace talks between the insurgents and the Afghan government had been postponed.

The Afghan government is examining claims that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar is dead.

Idris Elba writes and directs King For A Term on Sky Arts, Thursday, Idris Elba as Dad and Omar Agyei as Akuna.

Meet Omar Tsereteli, a security guard at the National Library of Parliament in Georgia - and Omar has an astounding talent.

Mexican federal forces have arrested the leader of the notorious Zetas drug cartel, say officials.

A young burns victim has gotten half her own face tattoed in a revolutionary treatment, and you would barely notice.

It’s always been the case with Robbie Keane that, even after he’d blown Ireland’s goal scoring record to smithereens, there have been critics only too happy to accentuate the negatives of his career.

Muhammad has become the most popular name for newborn boys in the UK.

FILM TIPS: There’s no doubt which film will be filling the cinemas this weekend, with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 already attracting huge crowds since its opening yesterday. Away from the big cinemas, Triskel Christchurch in Cork has Nightcrawler from Sunday, and Irish film Out of Here.

MUSIC NEWS: The big issue among the music world’s chattering classes this week has been the announcement of Metallica’s headline slot at Glastonbury.

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MUSIC NEWS: Elbow’s gigs in Ireland could be among the highlights of the summer, and Hot Press reports that the band also have a new album almost ready to go.

The late-night removal by gardaí of a couple and their seven-year-old son from their home last month for the purposes of deportation was unlawful but also disquieting and “quite simply distressing beyond words” for the boy, a judge said yesterday.

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BACK around the mid-noughties, some social gatherings began to take on the air of a strange self-help group. “We did four last night,” somebody would confess.

The light may be getting dimmer on this Kilkenny team but they are raging wildly against it.

His dreamy eyes, chiselled face, and well-groomed beard proved just too much for Saudi Arabia’s authorities.

Protesters condemning Egypt’s Islamist president have hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace.

A Canadian man who returned home after spending 10 years at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay is desperate to be a normal, contributing member of society, his lawyer says.

Suddenly, on Tuesday afternoon, those feelgood Olympic aspirations about inspiring a generation felt a little parochial and complacent.

The Taliban’s reclusive leader says his fighters have infiltrated the Afghan police and army and are successfully killing a rising number of US-led coalition forces.

Nicki Minaj wanted to "kill" her father when she was growing up.

Syrian forces renewed their assault on the flashpoint city of Homs as Russia’s foreign minister stressed the need for reform during talks in Damascus with President Bashar Assad about Syria’s escalating violence.

IN one of their deadliest attacks yet, Syrian army defectors killed at least 27 government soldiers and police in clashes in the south, activists said. The escalating political unrest yesterday prompted Canada to become the latest country to urge its citizens to leave Syria.

A gun battle erupted today between hundreds of revolutionary forces and Muammar Gaddafi supporters in the capital for the first time in more than two months.

POLICE say a Milwaukee woman abducted a young pregnant mother and removed her foetus just days before the baby was due, killing the mother and her unborn child.

The Taliban has said Mullah Omar is alive, accusing the Americans of hacking their phones after a text message sent to media from a spokesman's phone said the leader was dead.

A FORMER chairman of a major Egyptian bank is being held on US$25,000 (€17,000) bail after being charged with sexually abusing a housekeeper at a New York City hotel.

A former chairman of a major Egyptian bank is being held on $25,000 (€17,000) bail after being charged with sexually abusing a housekeeper at a luxury New York City hotel.

The Taliban has denied a report in the Afghan press that leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in neighbouring Pakistan, saying he is alive and in Afghanistan.