The race to select a Democratic candidate to depose incumbent president Donald Trump begins in Iowa on Monday. Bette Browne casts an eye over the runners and riders.

THE disastrous election defeat can be overturned is the message Fine Gael activists will hear from a top US political strategist at their behind closed doors conference today.

The head of security at Boston’s Logan Airport is being ousted, three weeks after terrorists crashed two planes hijacked from the airport into the World Trade Centre, an official in the Massachusetts governor’s office said.