John F Kennedy was remembered as a transcendent leader of a rising nation at a ceremony in Dallas last night, the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

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The director of Brad Pitt’s new movie has offered his “heartfelt apologies” after filming Nazi war scenes in an English village on Remembrance Day, provoking outrage.

For hours, the young cadets waited, standing at attention by the freshly dug grave — a striking tableau in their crisp, green tunics and brown breeches, rifles by their sides.

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A flame taken from the eternal one on US president John F Kennedy’s grave has arrived in Ireland as part of events to mark 50 years since his visit.

Technology specialists behind the London 2012 Olympic Torch have arrived in New Ross to work on the newly built Emigrant Flame, which will be lit by members of the Kennedy family and the Taoiseach this summer.

US President Barack Obama has been sworn in for a second four-year term.

US President Barack Obama has paid tribute at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery to “the heroes over the generations who have served this country of ours with distinction”.

Hurricane Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the US, slammed into the east coast last night to become what some analysts called “the north-east’s Katrina”.

Partial remains of several victims of the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States were incinerated by a military contractor and sent to a landfill site, a government report said.

Police in the US blocked off roads around the Pentagon and searched the surrounding area after arresting a man in Arlington National Cemetery overnight.

GERMAN and French leaders stood side by side at the World War I remembrance ceremony in Paris for the first time yesterday as events were held around the globe to honour the millions of dead.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama, three former presidents and the nation’s elite gathered at a grand Catholic funeral for Edward Kennedy, America’s legendary political patriarch.

US Senator Edward Kennedy was laid to rest alongside murdered brothers John and Robert on hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery, celebrated for “the dream he kept alive” across the decades since their deaths.

President Barack Obama paid tribute to the “greatest legislator of our time” today, eulogising Edward Kennedy in front of hundreds of mourners.

THE last time Ginger Romano saw Ted Kennedy, she wasn’t at her best.

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen is due to arrive in the US today for the funeral of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, who died on Tuesday after battling a brain tumour.

Senator Edward Kennedy’s body was taken on the first leg of its final journey, first past landmark after landmark bearing his family’s famous name and then to his murdered brother’s presidential library where mourners lined up by the thousands to bid farewell to him.

SENATOR Edward Kennedy’s body was taken to Boston last night to lie in repose at his murdered brother’s presidential library for two days of public visits.

The Government has confirmed that Taoiseach Brian Cowen will travel to Boston this weekend for the funeral of US Senator Ted Kennedy.

US Senator Edward Kennedy’s body will travel for at least two hours from his Cape Cod home to Boston, where it will lie in repose for two days before his funeral at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at Senator Edward Kennedy’s funeral, a White House source said, in a tribute to the last political elder of the family that fascinated Americans with its ambition, style, idealism and tragedies for decades.

A book of condolences is due to be opened in Dublin today for the late US Senator Edward Kennedy, who died yesterday at the age of 77.

US President George Bush paid tribute to the country’s troops who died in battle today on the Memorial Day holiday.

THE first-ever national memorial to Irish soldiers who died on duty will be sited in Dublin’s Merrion Square, it emerged today.

The first-ever national memorial to Irish soldiers who died on duty will be sited in Dublin’s Merrion Square, it emerged today.

The remains of a US Air Force officer, whose plane was shot down over North Vietnam in 1965, have been identified.

With quavering voices, parents and grandparents of those killed at the World Trade Center in New York slowly read the names of the victims today to mark the third anniversary of the attacks that brought down the twin towers.

The thousands killed on September 11 were being remembered where they died and across America today, the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

The US, still horrified by the September 11 attacks, will mark the second anniversary tomorrow with moments of silence and bursts of patriotic song, by gathering in peaceful memorial gardens and busy public squares, and by reaching out to each other.

UNITED STATES president George W Bush yesterday marked Memorial Day with a wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery, paying special tribute to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.