Ireland has paid 42% of the total cost of the European banking crisis, at a cost of close to €9,000 per person, according to Eurostat.

TODAY is a big day in Washington DC, with a momentous collision of giants set to unfold on a golf course in the American capital. Except we’re not talking about Congressional Country Club and the 111th US Open.

A US man sentenced to die for raping and murdering two women 20 years ago has stayed silent publicly about the crimes, refusing even to ask the Ohio governor to spare him.

Governor of Ohio Bob Taft today denied clemency for a convicted killer who has chosen the electric chair over lethal injection to illustrate the brutality of capital punishment.

Cincinnati’s mayor has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew amid the worst outbreak of racial violence in the Ohio city since the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968.