A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is believed to have provided the handgun used to kill a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer during the manhunt.

A world-renowned travel writer, who proposed to his wife while visiting Lismore in 2010, will return this month to speak at an event celebrating the Immrama travel writing festival.

THE claim, made two years ago, that the polar bears alive today had Irish brown bear ancestors has been turned on its head.

THE woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn will strongly deny to jurors any assertions that she willingly had sex with the IMF chief, her attorney said.

A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask and armed with an assault rifle began shooting at the University of Texas campus this morning before fleeing into a library and shooting himself dead.

A judge who granted asylum to President Barack Obama’s African aunt said she deserved to stay in the US because a government official who leaked her status made her a potential target in her native Kenya.

Actress Lindsay Lohan has begun a jail sentence for a probation offence that underlined the starlet’s inability to put a 2007 drug case behind her.

Lindsay Lohan moved to a substance abuse facility and signed legal papers hiring celebrity lawyer Robert Shapiro to represent her as she prepares to head to jail for violating probation in a 2007 drug case.

Lindsay Lohan has checked into rehab.

Police in the US found an “amateurish” but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in New York’s Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could dismantle it, authorities said today.

The hope and optimism that washed over the US in the opening months of Barack Obama’s presidency is fading, according to a new poll.

Senior economic advisor to new US president Barack Obama, Dr Robert Shapiro, has said this country ‘must wean itself from dependence on foreign direct investment’ (FDI).

THE election of a new US president will not have a devastating effect on foreign investment into Ireland, two leading US business figures have said.

One of Barack Obama's economic advisors has warned that Ireland will fail to attract US investment unless action is taken now.

A schoolboy has been charged with murder after a 15-year-old fellow pupil was stabbed to death in a hallway at his high school in an affluent Boston suburb.

TOM Cruise has won a new movie deal with the owner of an American football team, after his high-profile split from Paramount Pictures last week.

Tom Cruise has won a new movie deal with the owner of an American football team, after his high-profile split from Paramount Pictures last week.

Ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s is under fire from an animal welfare group for buying eggs from a company the Humane Society of the US says mistreats chickens.

Former Deputy President Jacob Zuma plans to sue South African media for millions of pounds over coverage of his rape trial, news reports said today.

Germany has agreed to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers persecuted during the Holocaust.

Germany agreed today to help clear the way for the opening of Nazi records on some 17 million Jews and slave labourers who were persecuted during the Holocaust.

Music producer Phil Spector has abandoned a lawsuit against his former attorney Robert Shapiro, who he claims cheated him.

The US military in Iraq has detained five Americans for suspected insurgent activity, Pentagon officials said. The five have not been chargd or had access to a lawyer, and face an uncertain legal future.

World leaders and death camp survivors mourned victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, gathering today at the spot where Nazi doctors once sent new arrivals to the gas chambers.

Leaders from 30 countries gathered today to remember the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed a petition condemning anti-Semitism and its resurgence and calling for the UN General Assembly to adopt a resolution denouncing anti-Jewish acts.

The defence team for music legend Phil Spector, facing trial for murder, is refusing to reveal a mystery piece of evidence, a prosecutor said last night.

Legendary record producer Phil Spector, charged with murdering an actress at his California mansion, told his chauffeur that night that he thought he had “killed somebody,” according to a police report.

SNIPER suspect John Allen Muhammad changed his mind yesterday and stopped acting as his own lawyer at his trial after only one day of cross-examining witnesses.

Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad changed his mind today and stopped acting as his own lawyer at his trial after only one day of cross-examining witnesses.

Police investigating the shooting to death of an actress at record producer Phil Spector’s California mansion today said they expect the case to be delayed.

LEGENDARY record producer Phil Spector has been charged with first-degree murder after a woman was found shot dead inside his mansion in Los Angeles.