Yale University has decided to keep the name of a residential college which honours 19th-century alumnus John C Calhoun, an ardent supporter of slavery.

US President Barack Obama has backed Pentagon plans to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Even after gunning down a TV news reporter and cameraman during a live interview, Vester Lee Flanagan II continued to rage.

With calls last week for Cork GAA fans to stop displaying Confederate flags at matches, American author Barbara Kingsolver says it’s time to let the flag go in her homeland too

ANY society as familiar with the choreography around the grand sacraments of Catholicism as this one is will easily understand the power of symbolism. 

Peniel E Joseph sets last week’s massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in the context of a climate of denial in America over national issues of racial inequality

America has to face “hard truths” about guns and race in the wake of the shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina that left nine dead, US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has said.

A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible study group at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested yesterday. Officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime.

This is one unusual talent!

When we grow up we want to be Bill Murray.

A man woke up from a drunken night to find himself stranded on a deserted island.

Hurricane Sandy headed north from the Caribbean – where it left nearly 60 dead - to threaten the eastern US today with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow as millions were warned to get out of its path.

GARDAÍ have said they are “150%” sure that recovered US tourist Kelly Jones was not held against her will before being discovered in a house at the foot of the Donegal hills.

The 2012 Republican presidential race heated up as latecomer Texas Governor Rick Perry formally announced his candidacy and Iowans weighed in for the first time on their expanding field of presidential hopefuls, picking US Representative Michele Bachmann as their top choice for the party’s nomination.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has joined the 2012 Republican race for US president.

Bill Murray has been hit with divorce papers from his wife of almost 11 years who has reportedly blamed domestic abuse, drug addiction and infidelity for the breakdown of their marriage.

World number one Lorena Ochoa begins her final warm-up for the second major of the women’s season at the Ginn Tribute tomorrow in Charleston, South Carolina.

Young, internet-savvy voters challenged Democratic presidential hopefuls on Iraq and their own place in a broken political system, playing starring roles in a provocative, video-driven debate.

A powerful storm pounded the eastern US with wind and pouring rain, grounding hundreds of airline flights and threatening to create some of the worst coastal flooding in 14 years.

Cork golfer Niall Turner was named the Big Ten Conference's Golfer of the Week after his third top-10 finish of the season at last weekend's Augusta State Invitational.

A federal judge ruled today that suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is competent to stand trial on terrorism-support charges, rejecting arguments that he was severely damaged by three and a half years of interrogation and isolation in a military brig.

Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon has fled Hollywood and moved back home to Charleston, South Carolina with her two children.

Hurricane Ophelia was downgraded to a tropical storm again today as the indecisive weather system moved slowly off the Atlantic coast, its outer bands of rain not quite reaching land.

Atlantic storm Ophelia regained hurricane strength, on a course expected to swing towards the Atlantic Coast, as forecasters urged residents from northern Florida to the Carolinas keep close watch on its path over the next few days.

GENERAL William Westmoreland, who commanded US troops in the Vietnam War, has died aged 91.

Retired Gen William Westmoreland, who commanded American troops in the Vietnam War – the nation’s longest conflict and the only war America lost – has died at age 91.

Adrift on a sailboat without food or fresh water for six days, 17-year-old Josh Long and a friend survived on sea water, raw jellyfish – and faith.

Jurors in Charleston, South Carolina, convicted a 15-year-old boy who claimed an antidepressant drug drove him to murder his grandparents, rejecting the first defence in the United States in which a juvenile claimed the effects of the drug caused him to kill.

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy, who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft drove him to kill his grandparents, was jailed for murder yesterday.

Hurricane Charley left a trail of destruction in Florida, where officials today reported a “significant loss of life”, as the slightly weakened storm barrelled on toward the South Carolina coast.

A bus carrying US Navy personnel to a wreath-laying ceremony lost control on a two-lane highway and crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer, killing three sailors and injuring dozens.

US FEDERAL courts dealt a double blow to the Bush administration’s strategy in the war on terror yesterday, ruling that the US military cannot deny prisoners access to lawyers or the American courts by detaining them indefinitely.

A former Muslim chaplain at the US military prison for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been charged with disobeying orders by improperly handling classified information.

A DOCTOR working as a translator at the US prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was arrested yesterday.

THE US government is trying to determine whether Syria is engaged in espionage against the US after an investigation of possible security breaches at a prison camp in Cuba, a leading White House aide said yesterday.

The mystery surrounding apparent security breaches at Guantanamo Bay, America’s prison for suspected terrorists deepened tonight as it emerged that a member of the US Air Force had been arrested.

A US Army Islamic chaplain who counselled al Qaida prisoners at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba has been detained as part of a military investigation, officials said.

A US Army Islamic chaplain who counselled al-Qaida prisoners at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba has been detained as part of a military investigation, officials said.