Twice, at least, President Barack Obama appeared to breathe in the mile or so of colour and joy that stretched out from his perch on the Capitol Building way off to the Washington Monument.

IT took God seven days to create the world, Enda Kenny joked in a succession of speeches in Washington on St Patrick’s Day, making it the same number of days he had been in the office of Taoiseach.

George Bush has declared Tuesday a national day of mourning for former US president Gerald Ford, asking people to gather in places of worship to honour his memory and ordering non-essential government departments to close.

US Security Services have given the all-clear after a plane was reported to be heading towards the White House.

US President George W Bush made a resounding call for worldwide freedom yesterday but did not mention Iraq once in his second inaugural speech.

NEW details of how passengers desperately fought back against hijackers who took control of their aircraft on September 11, 2001, have emerged from the US congressional commission probe into the attacks.

President Bush vowed victory in the “first great struggle of a new century” today as he led the United States in marking shattering terrorist attacks of one year ago.

An estranged wife of Osama bin Laden claims he plans a televised assisted suicide which will trigger attacks on London, Paris and the US.

Fallen heroes of the World Trade Centre terror attacks could be awarded a special posthumous medal made from metal salvaged from the ruins, it was reported today.