Passengers aboard a cruise ship that set sail from Southampton may have norovirus, US authorities say.

The systemic concentrated poverty and police oppression that triggered the Watts rebellion in 1965 still marks the US, from Ferguson to Maryland, writes James Braxton Peterson 

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets to demand answers over the police custody death of Freddie Gray.

US-based international publishing group Agora has announced a 300% increase in employment at its Irish operations, with 100 jobs set to come on stream at a new €4.4m development in Co Waterford.

A Spool of Blue Thread

Michael Phelps has been handed a six-month suspension by USA Swimming following his arrest for allegedly drink driving last month.

Astronaut Reid Wiseman gives us a stunning view of the southern lights - from the best seat in the house.

Wye Oak’s Andy Stack speaks in a low, reflective murmur. "We sort of burnt ourselves out touring our last album," he says.

A man carrying a shotgun opened fire at a busy US shopping mall, killing two employees of a skate shop and then himself as panicked shoppers ran for cover.

An Army private accused of sending reams of classified US documents to the WikiLeaks website was kept in tight pre-trial confinement partly because another prisoner had recently committed suicide, the former security chief at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, told a court today.

WHICH version of The Hoff is your personal favourite?

IT’S the top of the 10th inning in Houston and the St Louis Cardinals are battling for the right to keep playing in October, baseball’s favourite month.

IF previous rogue traders are anything to go by, notoriety and possibly even a Hollywood film await the person behind the €1.66 billion UBS fallout.

JERRY Leiber, who with longtime partner Mike Stoller wrote Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, Yakety Yak, Stand By Me and other hit songs that came to define early rock ‘n’ roll, has died. He was 78.

IT SHOULD have been the high point of Victoria Legrand’s career.

AN American biologist has stepped into the shoes of Baron Frankenstein by breathing life into a bacterium using genes assembled in the laboratory.

JUST over a mile off the coast of Haiti lies the world’s largest hospital ship.

The makers of the movie 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' have been slapped with a lawsuit from an American driving instructor who appeared in the 2006 comedy.

ASTRONAUT Robert Curbeam is poised to set a record next week when he is scheduled to embark on his fourth spacewalk of the space shuttle Discovery mission, this one to work on a stalled solar panel.

Astronaut Robert Curbeam is poised to set a new record next week when he is scheduled to embark on his fourth spacewalk of the space shuttle Discovery mission, this one to work on a stalled solar panel.

A BOEING 737 trying to land in heavy snow at a Chicago airport yesterday slid off a runway and crashed through a boundary fence, onto a busy street where it hit one car and pinned another beneath it.

Two former guards convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal testified at US Army Pfc. Lynndie England’s military trial that she was impressionable and under the sway of her soldier boyfriend, Private Charles Graner, labelled the ringleader of detainee abuse by the prosecution.

In a sign of the decline of Pope John Paul II's decline, several cardinals from the US and Latin America said they were heading to Rome.

POPULAR impotence drug Viagra, used by millions of men around the world, could also be used to treat patients with a serious heart condition, research revealed yesterday.

A MOTHER discovered three children dead after a brutal killer beheaded one and partially decapitated two others at an apartment in Baltimore, Maryland.

A mother discovered three children dead after a brutal killer tried to hack off their heads, police in the US said today.

Astronomers have peered deeper into the depths of the universe than ever before to obtain a startling view of the earliest galaxies, it emerged today.

John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix are immersed in research for their latest movie Ladder 49 - so much so that producers are worrying they will come to harm in their enthusiasm for fire-fighting, according to imdb.com.

US President George W Bush is set to announce plans for the first manned mission to Mars.

Neurosurgeons performing a dangerous operation to separate Iranian sisters joined at the head grappled today with rerouting a vein as thick as a finger that helps blood flow through the twins’ brains.

A pair of 29-year-old Iranian twin sisters who are joined at the head began a marathon operation today that could finally separate them – or kill them.

A SNUBBED American committee is withdrawing its long-term support for the Jeanie Johnson famine ship project.

The country’s biggest bank, AIB, last year built up one the largest profits recorded by an Irish company.

MORE than 10,000 part-time troops have been ordered to prepare for active duty and movement overseas beginning as early as this week to support a US military build-up near Iraq, Army officials said yesterday.

A man stole a small plane at gunpoint then threatened to crash it into the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, sparking panic in the German financial capital.

Ireland’s AIB banking group returned a 5% profits increase in the six months to June, their interim results showed today.

A rogue currency trader accused of hiding €800m in trading losses at AIB-owned Allfirst Financial was today indicted by a US federal grand jury.

A catholic priest in the United States has been shot and wounded by a man who accused him of sexual abuse nine years ago.

Shares in AIB bank - whose value slumped earlier this month following confirmation of an €800m alleged fraud loss at an American subsidiary - soared in price on the stock exchange today following renewed takeover speculation.

Allied Irish Bank, Ireland’s biggest bank, today confirmed the consequences on its results of the suspected $750m (€866m) fraud loss at one of its American subsidiaries.

Allied Irish Bank, Ireland’s biggest bank, was today presenting its annual results in Dublin, just two weeks after confirming a massive deficit of more than €866m at an US subsidiary.

A top American banker was today preparing to head a probe by the AIB bank into the loss of more than $750m through a US subsidiary company.

Directors at Ireland’s biggest bank, AIB, were meeting in special session today to assess worldwide reaction to yesterday’s shock disclosure of a $750m (€866m) fraud loss at an American subsidiary.

The US banker at the centre of an alleged €866m fraud has met voluntarily with the FBI and federal prosecutors, his lawyer said.