As the French film festival reaches its end, Helen Barlow looks at this year’s hits, misses and talking points.

Fifty years ago today Martin Luther King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

Top economic adviser Gary Cohn is leaving the White House after breaking with President Donald Trump on trade policy, the latest in a string of high-level departures from the West Wing.

Latest: One person has died and another was seriously injured after a chartered train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat struck a refuse truck in Virginia, the White House has confirmed.

A man accused of driving into a crowd protesting against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has been indicted on 10 felony counts including first-degree murder.

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SPORT is political, sometimes deeply so. It is a conduit to our higher ambitions. It gives voice to our better angels and, unless corrupted, can distil principle more powerfully than any policy document drowning in caveats or derogations.

The provocateur president has drawn the ire of the sports world for saying players who kneel during the national anthem should be fired, writes Catherine Lucey and Arnie Stapleton

United States president Donald Trump followed up his scathing comments about protesting NFL players by withdrawing an invitation to NBA champions the Golden State Warriors to attend the White House.

Germany has the confidence and capacity to lead Europe, but, ahead of Angela Merkel’s expected re-election, that doesn’t mean its partners have to like it, writes John Lloyd.    

AT this remove it is always impossible to be certain that our understanding of a conflict is accurate.

We owe it to all of those who suffered under past authoritarian regimes to stand up now, writes Guy Verhofstadt

With the EU unyielding in its Brexit demands, and with the third round of talks failing, the UK will become ever more dependent on its largest trading partner says John Lloyd

Donald Trump’s yearning for authoritarian rule is clear for all to see, writes James Q Whitman.

Every American president faces a moment that defines their presidency. That moment came and went for Donald Trump after Charlottesville, writes Bette Browne.

Putin’s paranoia, backed by a prolific State propaganda machine, is leaving many in the West nervous about Russia’s future moves, writes Peter Apps.

Uber is to appoint Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi as chief executive of the global ride-hailing leviathan, writes Eric Newcomer 

President Donald Trump's values should be considered separate from America's when it comes to race, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.

Protesters opposing a right-wing "freedom rally" in liberal San Francisco have claimed victory after the event was cancelled when city chiefs walled off a park.

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"(The media) don't want to report that I spoke out forecefully against bigotry, hatred and violence."

When he agreed to appear as a racist cop in the tale of 1967 in Detroit,

A Catholic priest who was a "wizard" in the Ku Klux Klan before becoming a clergyman has urged white supremacists to turn their back on hate by revealing his own personal journey from extremism.

I am very familiar with Charlottesville having lived there for almost a year in the early 1980s. 

The University of Texas has quickly removed statues of Robert E Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from the main area of its Austin campus, just hours after the school's president ordered they be taken down.

A US politician who said on Facebook she hoped Donald Trump would be assassinated has apologised publicly to the president and his family, calling the online posting "a mistake".

“Nineteen hyenas and a broken vacuum cleaner control the White House.”

When Susan Bro spoke at a memorial for her daughter, Heather Heyer, who was murdered by a right-wing extremist in Charlottesville just over a week ago, her powerful response resonated with families on this island who had lost a loved-one to bewildered extremism.

US President Donald Trump is planning to address the nation on his strategy for the war in Afghanistan. DONALD TRUMP TO ADDRESS NATION ON AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY

Around 500 far-right extremists have marched in Berlin in honour of the 30th anniversary of the death of Nazi Rudolf Hess.

Latest: President Donald Trump has tweeted his thanks to Steve Bannon after the latter left the White House.

Senior personnel associated with the Cork senior county camogie and men’s football teams have written a letter to the editor of the Irish Examiner praising the decision of the Cork GAA County board to condemn the use of the Confederate flag.

AMERICA has embarked on a great festival of denial.

If you remove the vestige and emblems of the past, do you erase the memory of what they represented too? asks Clodagh Finn

Police in Berlin have given far-right extremists permission to hold a rally commemorating the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess in the city's western district of Spandau.

The mother of a woman who was killed while demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has said she will not speak to President Donald Trump because of comments he made after her daughter's death.

Donald Trump has lashed out at members of his own party as his controversial response to white supremacist violence threatens to engulf his presidency.

US president Donald Trump dug in defiantly in his response to racial violence in Virginia, echoing the position of white nationalists by intensifying his opposition to the removal of monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy.

Even against the backdrop of US president Donald Trump’s sinister and shockingly inept implosion over events in Charlottesville, the news that people in 22 countries trust Russia’s president Vladimir Putin more than they trust Mr Trump seems to cross a Rubicon most democrats in the West never imagined even existed. 

US stocks have plunged as losses for Cisco Systems hurt technology companies while Wal-Mart declined after its latest quarterly report.

A Confederate flag is on sale on Amazon advertised as an "Ireland South Cross Flag".

Former US presidents George HW Bush and George W Bush have said "America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred in all forms".

British Prime Minister Theresa May has criticised Donald Trump for not singling out white supremacists for criticism.

The IDA and business group Ibec reaffirmed Ireland’s importance to the US after President Donald Trump again questioned the reasons so many American companies have bases outside the US, and mentioned Ireland by name.