It has been a year of change for Rory McIlroy, who has switched equipment companies, gotten married, and now split with his longtime caddie JP Fitzgerald.

Rory McIlroy believes he has finally found some momentum in time for the final major of the year.

A lawyer for Ms Shelby said the officer was "elated" that the jury found her not guilty.

Tens of thousands of women have amassed in Washington DC and other cities around the globe for marches aimed at showing US president Donald Trump they will not be silent over the next four years.

A nine-year-old girl's tearful speech in Charlotte, North Carolina, has gone viral.

Police have used tear gas to disperse protesters after officers were injured and a major road was shut down during a demonstration over the latest fatal shooting of a black man by US police.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has apologised for past remarks that “may have caused personal pain” as he sought to refocus his message in the face of falling opinion poll numbers in his first speech since shaking up his campaign team this week.

Barack Obama carried out his presidencies with dignity and never embarrassed the country. Indeed there hasn’t been a tone-deaf moment in his two terms, and he will be missed, writes Elizabeth Drew

US President Barack Obama and the woman who wants to succeed him will make their first campaign appearance together next week.

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy delivered a chilling reminder to his rivals as he targets a second PGA Tour success in three weeks and a second Wells Fargo Championship victory in suburban Charlotte, North Carolina.

US employment growth accelerated in February and the jobless rate fell to a more than six-and-a-half-year low of 5.5%, signs that could encourage the Federal Reserve to consider hiking interest rates in June.

West Waterford’s Seamus Power shot a blemishless final round of three under par 68 over the fearsome Champions Course at PGA National, West Palm Beach, Florida, yesterday to take a massive step towards achieving his ambition of claiming a place on the lucrative US PGA Tour.

Brazil’s Cutrale Group and Safra Group again increased their unsolicited joint bid to buy banana producer Chiquita Brands International in an offer worth about $686m (€542m).

Irish-headquartered fruit importer and distributor Fyffes has called an emergency general meeting (EGM) to seek shareholder approval for its proposed merger with Chiquita.

Major US stock indexes rebounded, finishing higher for the third time in four days and lifting the Dow Jones industrial average to its second record close this month.

US employers kept up a solid pace of hiring in May, returning employment to its pre-recession level and offering confirmation the economy has snapped back from a winter slump.

Bank of America shrank its derivatives business in Ireland by $169bn (€123bn) over the past two years as it moved contracts to London to simplify its accounting practices.

It was a loaded question and Rory McIlroy delivered the correct answer when asked what would be the perfect 25th birthday gift this coming Sunday, which is also the final day of the Wells Fargo Championship.

Rory McIlroy is hoping the old racing adage about horses for courses holds true this week when he returns to action in the Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA US Tour in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The private jet owned by Spanish golfing star Sergio Garcia was forced to divert to Shannon Airport yesterday after the crew declared an emergency over the Atlantic.

CIA director David Petraeus was shocked to learn last summer that his mistress was suspected of sending threatening emails warning another woman to stay away from him, former staff members and friends have told the Associated Press.

FBI agents are at the home of the woman whose affair with retired General David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director.

Nicki Minaj threatened and swore at Mariah Carey during 'American Idol' auditions on Tuesday.

US vice-president Joe Biden has criticised Republican candidate Mitt Romney for proposing policies the Democrat claims would cut taxes for millionaires and raise them for middle-class families.

By Matt Spetalnick and John Whitesides, Washington Charlotte,North Carolina

Former president Bill Clinton will lead the cheers as he nominates Barack Obama for a second White House term tonight in a bid to enhance the Democrats economic credibility.

Democrats kicked off their 2012 convention with first lady Michelle Obama firing the first shots of a three-day salvo aimed at breaking the electoral deadlock with Republicans.

Even though the American Civil War ended nearly six decades before our own, that country, still the world’s biggest economy, still the great superpower, seems polarised in a way unimaginable in contemporary Ireland or Europe.

The Greek columns may be banished and the “hope” and “change” signs gone, but US president Barack Obama’s pitch to voters at the Democratic National Convention this week echoes his 2008 speech, when he cast himself as a visionary leader in touch with the nation’s priorities.

US President Barack Obama is embarking on a four-day march through battleground states and the storm-battered Gulf Coast in the lead-up to his party’s convention.

A black camerawoman who works for CNN spoke today of a race-hate attack at the Republican National Convention by two people who hurled peanuts at her and said: “This is what we feed animals.”

Republicans bestowed their presidential nomination on Mitt Romney, turning to the former Massachusetts governor and multi-millionaire businessman to drive Barack Obama from the White House and usher in a new era of small-government conservatism.

Republican Mitt Romney’s selection of Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate has not altered the race against President Barack Obama, and the campaign remains very close with less than three months to go, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows.

US Democrats are moving to include support for gay marriage in its official policy statement for the first time, a party official said, marking a key milestone for advocates of same-sex unions.

Critical firefighting aircraft have been grounded during one of the busiest and most destructive wildfire seasons to hit the US west after a military cargo plane crashed battling a South Dakota inferno.

Annoyed with the pressure to look good 24/7, two female friends went ‘au naturel’ for 60 days, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler

KIM WRIGHT

United Airlines is to operate a new daily direct Dublin-Washington service from next June.

RORY McILROY does not believe he was ready to win his first major last month.

WHEN Rory McIlroy created global headlines by winning the 2010 Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, few could have imagined he would be without a tournament success 12 months later.

Rory McIlroy is up to a career-high sixth in the world – and ahead of Tiger Woods for the first time.