US treasuries gained with emerging-market assets as futures traders held to bets that the Federal Reserve, chaired by Janet Yellen, will not raise interest rates this week amid financial market volatility.

An African-American singer who has lived in Cork for more than 17 years has urged the Rebel County’s GAA fans to stop flying the Confederate flag at football and hurling matches.

ENGLAND: Dog owner Keath Armstrong put his trio of huskies to work — using them to help him move house.

Nearly 36,000 runners set out from the Boston Marathon starting line with security tight along the 26.2-mile course in a show of resilience a year after the bombing that turned the race into a scene of carnage.

Nearly 36,000 runners set out from the Boston Marathon starting line with security tight along the 26.2-mile course today, in a show of resilience a year after the bombing that turned the race into a scene of carnage.

A probe is under way after a UPS cargo plane crashed into a field near a US airport, killing two pilots and scattering wreckage over a rural area.

A 10-year-old boy has been killed at an airport in Alabama after a huge arrivals/departures sign fell on him.

A man from Uzbekistan was sentenced to more than 15 years in a US prison for plotting to kill President Barack Obama.

A judge has acquitted an Alabama man accused of killing his new wife on a honeymoon scuba dive trip in Australia.

A man from Uzbekistan who pleaded guilty to plotting to kill US president Barack Obama with an automatic rifle claimed he was acting at the direction of an Islamic terror group in his home country.

TWO men suspected of carrying out a dry run for a terrorist attack on an airliner were being questioned by police last night.

Two men suspected of carrying out a dry run for a terrorist attack on an airliner were being questioned by police today.

IRISH survivors of clerical sex abuse have been invited to travel to the Vatican on October 31 to demand change from the Roman Catholic Church.

An apologetic advertising campaign by BP for causing the biggest oil spill in US history has earned the company more criticism than sympathy as the pollution spreads across the US Gulf Coast from Louisiana into Alabama and Florida.

A man fined 1p for refusing to put personal information on an election form today said the landmark court case made a mockery of the authorities.

A failed financial adviser who faked his death by making a mayday call from his light plane then bailing out leaving it to crash was being hunted by US police today.

Seve Ballesteros says his Champions Tour debut this weekend will feel like a second chance in his golfing career.

Waterford’s Seamus Power got the spring collegiate season off to a flying start on Tuesday with a tied second-place finish at the PING Arizona Intercollegiate tournament in Tucson.

Ireland’s Mark McNulty claimed a one-stroke lead at the Regions Charity Classic after a second-round 68 in Birmingham, Alabama.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today called Britain's former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, and his successor, Margaret Beckett, after a shake-up in the government, the US State Department said.

Tens of thousands of people banged drums, waved US flags and marched in a protest urging federal politicians to pass immigration reform that would legalise an estimated 11 million undocumented workers.

Investors concerned about inflation after a surprise jump in labour costs bid stocks sharply lower on Wall Street today, with unfounded rumours of a terror threat compounding the selling.

Howard Chenevert and Julie Morgan met at a staging area for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina beside Interstate 10 after floodwaters forced them from their New Orleans homes. They got to know each other on a bus ride to a shelter in Houston.

With a hint of pride in his voice and a wink at prosecutors, a right-wing extremist today pleaded guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks across the south of the US.

Jennifer Aniston has been named godmother to Friends co-star Courteney Cox Arquette's daughter Coco.

US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice will be nominated to succeed outgoing secretary of state Colin Powell, it emerged today.

Michael Jackson’s defence lawyer said today in a court-approved statement that reports about photographs allegedly seized from the singer’s home were false and that the prosecution in his child-sex case agreed.

A disappointing sales forecast from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. sent stocks mostly lower today as investors worried that oil prices, which stabilised after last week’s highs, would curb consumer spending and hurt companies’ third-quarter earnings.

Alice Cooper insists fellow rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his family don't belong in their posh Beverly Hills neighbourhood.

Qatar will hold its first-ever motorcycle grand prix next year after being named on the provisional 2004 calendar.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man early today believed to be Eric Rudolph, the fugitive charged with the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and in bomb attacks at a gay nightclub and an abortion clinic, the FBI said.

Ruben Studdard outsang Clay Aiken early today to become the new American Idol.

A Saudi man who apparently holds a student pilot’s licence has been arrested in Missouri on a bank fraud charge as America’s post-terror attacks investigation pressed ahead.

A former Ku Klux Klansman has been convicted of murder for the 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls.