By Mary Regan, Political Correspondent in Boston

Robert F. Kennedy Jr is convinced that a lone gunman was not solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a “shoddy piece of workmanship”.

Hoping to turn around the fortunes of Canada’s once-dominant Liberal Party, the eldest son of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau announced he was following his father’s footsteps and launching his bid to obtain the party’s leadership.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr's estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, has been found dead at the family property.

CAROLINE Kennedy says her daughters were “horrified” by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ old-fashioned view of the role of women in interviews released this week.

Former US senator Edward M. Kennedy became a magnet for extremist rage in the decades after his brothers were gunned down, living under constant, chillingly specific assassination threats targeting him, according to newly released FBI documents.

Naomi Watts is to play Marilyn Monroe in new movie 'Blonde'.

Rachel Weisz is being lined up to play Jackie Kennedy in new movie 'Jackie'.

Celebrations, remembrances and joyful exuberance enveloped Germany today, the 20th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall came down, a momentous event that helped transform Europe and signalled the beginning of the end of communism in Europe.

Senator Edward Kennedy’s body was taken on the first leg of its final journey, first past landmark after landmark bearing his family’s famous name and then to his murdered brother’s presidential library where mourners lined up by the thousands to bid farewell to him.

A Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate US President Gerald Ford was freed from prison today after 34 years behind bars.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was celebrated by family members as a passionate humanitarian and a pious woman devoid of vanity, hours after thousands of mourners flocked to a church to pay their respects to the founder of the Special Olympics.

Former President Mary Robinson is to receive America’s Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama today.

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the US networks’ golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called “the most trusted man in America”, has died at the age of 92.

Caroline Kennedy is interested in the Senate seat that would open once Hillary Clinton becomes US Secretary of State, according to a close relative who says the powerful Kennedy clan is fully behind her rising to the office previously held by her uncle.

A KGB spy who switched allegiances at the height of the Cold War and was considered by the CIA as its “most valuable and economical defector” has died.

Barack Obama’s rousing speech before Berlin’s Victory Column to more than 200,000 cheering fans won the hearts of Germans, with newspapers today describing his appearance as a historic event.

Hillary Clinton was set formally to end her historic bid for the White House today and urge her supporters to rally behind rival Barack Obama, a show of support Democrats hope will help heal the party fractured by a bitter battle for the presidential nomination.

Soul legend Stevie Wonder has heaped praise on US presidential hopeful Barack Obama, insisting he will be a great leader if elected into the White House.

Veteran politician Edward Kennedy was making a good recovery from surgery on a brain tumour, doctors said today.

Ailing leader Fidel Castro today resigned as Cuba’s leader after nearly a half-century, saying he would not accept a new term when the newly elected parliament meets on Sunday.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama seized on his endorsement by a leading anti-war group to disparage Democrat rival Hillary Clinton’s judgment on voting for war in Iraq, while the former First Lady used the latest dire US economic news to criticise President George Bush.

New testing on the type of ammunition used in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy raises questions about whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, according to a study by researchers at Texas A&M University.

US Congressman Patrick Kennedy has reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of prescription drugs in connection with his middle-of-the-night car crash last month.

The USS Oriskany sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico today after the Navy set off explosions on the retired aircraft carrier to make the world’s largest intentionally created reef.

THE old racecourse on the south side of Limerick city is favourite to become the home of rugby in Munster.

FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela has spent a lifetime inspiring others and honouring with them with his presence but as far as he was concerned, he was the one under a compliment for being invited to formally open the Special Olympics World Games.

Bobby Kennedy’s assassin today lost a bid to overturn his conviction an and subsequent life sentence.