USA: In one of Chicago’s most dangerous neighbourhoods, a small group is trying a new tactic to curb the violence - by teaching yoga.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden’s father has secured documents to visit his son in Russia and plans to discuss how he could fight espionage charges.

A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to detonate a suicide bomb at the US Capitol building in an undercover sting.

A Moroccan man who believed he was working with al Qaida was arrested near the US Capitol as he planned to detonate a "suicide vest", given to him by undercover officers.

A US federal judge has sided with government lawyers investigating the disclosure of classified documents on WikiLeaks and upheld a ruling that Twitter must turn over account information to prosecutors.

A US COLLEGE dropout and Muslim convert who threatened the creators of the South Park cartoon series and then tried to join an al Qaida-linked terror group in Somalia has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

A US college dropout and Muslim convert who threatened the creators of the “South Park” cartoon series and then tried to join an al-Qaida-linked terror group in Somalia has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Eleven people accused of spying for Russia were formally charged in a US indictment, more than a week after the FBI announced their arrests.

A COURT hearing for three suspects in the Russia spy case was postponed yesterday amid growing speculation the US and Russia are arranging a prisoner swap.

A court hearing for three suspects in the Russia spy case was postponed today amid speculation the US and Russia are arranging a prisoner swap.

Cyprus authorities stepped up their search today for the 11th alleged member of a Russian spy ring who vanished after skipping bail, but police refused to answer questions about why the suspect was granted bail in the first place.

Five young Americans captured in Pakistan were being questioned today for possible links to terror groups after their families found a disturbing farewell video saying that Muslims must be defended.

THE Obama administration is not fighting a nearly $500,000 (€352,542) judgment for a Library of Congress employee who lost the job while undergoing a gender change from a man to a woman.

Shepherds found the mutilated bodies of two German nurses and a South Korean teacher who were kidnapped while picnicking in an area of Yemen known as a hideout for al-Qaida.

THE lightning and turbulence that may have hit an Air France jet flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris are rarely the cause of plane crashes, analysts say.

THREE young Irish women onboard the Air France airliner which vanished over the Atlantic Ocean were best friends who were forging out promising careers as doctors, it emerged tonight.

KATE and Gerry McCann flew to the United States yesterday to film an interview for the Oprah Winfrey Show to mark two years since their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.

LONG lines and malfunctioning machines greeted voters across America yesterday as polls were deluged by people wanting to cast ballots in this historic race between Barack Obama and John McCain.

Barack Obama has won the Maine caucuses today to sweep all five weekend Democratic contests, gaining new momentum and further narrowing rival Hillary Clinton's delegate lead in their epic battle for the party's presidential nomination.

A LIMERICK woman thinks she has found a rich American relative.

FANCY a share of a $1.9 million inheritance? Well if you happen to be living in north Cork or south Limerick you’d better start researching your family tree.

The pilot of an airliner that burst into flames after trying to land on a short, rain-slicked runway apparently tried to take off again, barely clearing rush-hour traffic on a major highway. The death toll rose today to 189 and could climb higher.

US Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life today, to “die with a whimper,” for his role in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

An unrepentant Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison today for his role in the September 11, 2001, attacks.

After listening to six weeks of argument, tears and revelations, more of the jurors who spared Zacarias Moussaoui’s life were moved by the al-Qaida conspirator’s turbulent, deprived childhood than by claims that he was a delusional psychotic seeking martyrdom.

A US jury tonight rejected the death penalty for al Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and decided he must spend life in prison for his role in the infamous ‘9/11’ attacks.

More than a week has passed since jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial began deliberating, and as time passes, the odds increase that the jury will refuse to order his execution, according to experts.

Jury deliberations in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial in Alexandria, Virginia, were abruptly recessed today when a juror called in sick.

Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case reached a fourth day of deliberations today to decide whether the September 11 conspirator should be executed or sentenced to life in a US prison.

Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case completed a third day of deliberations today without deciding whether the September 11 conspirator should be executed or imprisoned for life.

Jurors in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui asked for but were denied a dictionary today for use during their deliberations on whether the September 11 conspirator should receive a death sentence or life in prison.

Zacarias Moussaoui’s mother, describing her life as “hell”, today left France for the United States to be there when a federal jury decides whether her son faces life in prison or the death penalty.

Jurors in the US trial of Zacarias Moussaoui headed into a second day of deliberations today to decide whether the September 11 conspirator should receive a death sentence or life in prison.

The US judge in the death-penalty trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has said the case is one of the most complex criminal cases in American history.

The US government today conceded it had no evidence that British would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid was to have conducted a terror hijacking with Zacarias Moussaoui, as Moussaoui has claimed.

A defence psychologist today said he concluded that Zacarias Moussaoui is a paranoid schizophrenic based on observations of the actions and writings of the confessed terrorist conspirator who was described earlier as convinced US President George Bush will set him free.

A witness called by US defence attorneys trying to spare the life of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui said today he came from a broken home where his mother was repeatedly beaten, and has a history of mental illness in his family.

Confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, taking the witness stand in Alexandria, Virginia, today argued that he cannot get a fair trial so close to the Defence Department and denied he was trying to sabotage his defence by testifying earlier that he was to have piloted a fifth plane on September 11, 2001.

IN the final minutes of doomed United Air Lines Flight 93, on September 11, 2001, hijackers try to shake off passengers trying to take control of the plane as it flies over Pennsylvania.

US Federal prosecutors seeking the execution of Zacarias Moussaoui figuratively placed the jury aboard doomed Flight 93 for its last searing moments, playing a recording in which the September 11, 2001, hijackers were heard ordering passengers to “shut up” and “sit”.

Prosecutors approached the end of their US death-penalty case against September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui after a gruelling week of testimony about the appalling impact of the September 11, 2001, attacks on victims and their families.

The judge has urged prosecutors to show restraint, but it has proved difficult to blunt the emotional impact as families of 9/11 victims tell their tales to jurors in the US death-penalty trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared today at the trial where a jury is considering whether admitted al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui should be put to death in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks.

A US jury has found al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui eligible to be executed and decided that his lies to FBI agents led directly to at least one death in the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001.