BOOSTED by his big night, John McCain asked his loudest conservative critics yesterday to “calm down” and support his Republican presidential candidacy.

Three-tonne concrete panels fell from the roof of Boston’s Big Dig cross-city tunnel, killing a woman in a car and shutting down a section of the massive US building project.

Sewage treatment plant workers discovered a baby’s arm, and US authorities said the remains could have come from any of 21 communities near Boston, Massachusetts.

BOSTON Harbour had its Tea Party and now Foynes port in Co Limerick has just had its Banana Day.

President George Bush and newly-crowned Democratic standard-bearer John Kerry wasted no time blasting each other at the official start of the US general election campaign, trading identical criticisms that the other was short on accomplishments.

The man challenging George Bush for the White House, Senator John Kerry, arrived tonight in Boston where his followers are gathered for the pre-election Democratic National Convention.

The wife of Senator John Kerry said the Demorcratic his party had “putrid” politics and that some of its senior members were untrustworthy, according to a book unearthed today.