Two people have been killed and seven injured, some critically, after a suicide bomber blew herself up in a Governor's compound in Iraq's western Anbar Province.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has promised continued cooperation with Ireland to encourage private sector investment as an economic stimulus.

BARACK OBAMA last night remembered to invite Taoiseach Brian Cowen to the White House this St Patrick’s Day, hours after the American president unveiled a stunning $1.7 trillion (e1.4tn) budget deficit.

IT WAS an auspicious start to President Barack Obama’s new world order. By his second week in office he’d directed military leaders to end the war in Iraq, ordered the closing of Guantanamo Bay and witnessed Iraqi prime minister Nouri Maliki’s resounding victory that made it look like a 16-month exit plan is in the offing.