A British local newspaper received an anonymous call about "some big news" in America 25 minutes before President John F Kennedy was assassinated, documents have shown.

The family of golfer David Feherty has appealed to people to reach out to those suffering with addiction after the death of his son Shey from an overdose on his 29th birthday.

China has strongly criticised what it called America's "terrible human rights problems" in its annual report on rights abuses in the United States, citing police brutality, high levels of incarceration, racial prejudice and money politics.

A shift in focus can lead to national consensus that might extend the America described in Obama’s speech into a place its citizens can be proud to call home, writes Peniel Joseph

HARDLY a summer goes by without riots erupting on the streets of American cities over the killing of black people by white policemen. 

You’d think the military would take the most direct route to a target.

A US-bound flight was forced to turn back and land at Shannon Airport this afternoon after a passenger on board fell ill.

A British man and his wife, who feared their baby had been swapped at birth and sold to human traffickers in El Salvador, have been reunited with their son, after authorities tracked down the child by ordering other new mothers to have their babies DNA-tested.

In the surrounds of the richest golf ambiance anywhere and on the threshold of the oldest championship the sport knows, it probably isn’t the proper time to ask if you’ve ever heard of the Greater Milwaukee Open or the Quad City Classic or something called the BC Open, or even the LaCantera Texas Open.

The 26-year-old was thousands of miles from his luxurious home in sunny Jupiter, Florida. He was being swept by fierce showers blown in off the Irish Sea. One of his partners was the local hero and tournament host who happened to be going through a horrendous time, failing to break 80.

Rory McIlroy best avoid US television for a week or so because the Green Jacket that should have been his destiny will be on screen and on the wrong golfer’s back far too much for his liking.

Dramatic footage has emerged of passengers screaming in fear as their plane endures severe turbulence that injured several people.

With the closest known US cases of ebola diagnosed about 160 miles away in Dallas, Cary Griffin, from Huntsville, Texas is taking no chances.

US President Barack Obama has authorised the Pentagon to call up reserve and National Guard troops if they are needed to assist in the US response to the ebola outbreak in Africa.

The first person diagnosed with ebola in the US died yesterday as the government ordered five airports to screen passengers from West Africa for fever.

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A patient in a hospital in Dallas, Texas, has been confirmed to have the deadly ebola virus, a local news outlet reported last night.

More than €670m worth of Irish mortgages are to be sold to a US-based private equity firm for an undisclosed sum.

A Sony executive’s flight was diverted after hackers attacked the company’s PlayStation Network, then tweeted to suggest there was a bomb on his plane.

Any horse called John F Kennedy, trained by Aidan O’Brien, was always destined to attract more than normal attention.

Photographs of Hollywood stars found in a dusty old filing cabinet are to be exhibited for the first time.

Paul Walker's family and friends held a private memorial at the site of his car crash on Monday night.

The last of the Irish cousins of the famous Kennedy dynasty gathered at their ancestral homestead to remember John F Kennedy yesterday.

THE last of JFK’s Irish cousins has recalled the devastating day news of his assassination reached the rural homestead where the Kennedy story began.

Early next month, Fionn Fitzgerald will board a flight in Shannon bound for Dallas, Texas.

It’s the morning after the night before and while the words “tired” and “emotional” are crashing around tender Tralee heads, US southern belle Haley O’Sullivan has more important issues on her mind.

The shocking attack on a child and her mother at Dublin zoo this week is not the first time lives have been put in danger in zoos across the world.

When teacher Dale Irby accidentally wore the same brown v-necked tank top and big-collared disco shirt for two school photos in a row, he wrote it off as a forgetful lapse.

Rihanna cancelled a concert in Texas last night.

Savo Duvnjak looks around the room, lifts a metal baseball bat and wrecks everything in sight — bed, table, shelves, chair — until there’s nothing left to wreck.

Tributes were flooding in from around the world today following the death of Dallas star Larry Hagman.

The GAA are looking into the possibility of staging one or both of the Interprovincial finals in Dallas, Texas in 2014.

A US woman has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for beating her toddler and gluing the child’s hands to a wall.

Every family has its share of pain and triumph. And then there are the Kennedys.

Carroll Shelby, the car racer and designer who built the Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford’s Mustang and Chrysler’s Viper, has died at 89.

A pregnant wife whose husband had terminal cancer had their daughter induced two weeks early so he could see the baby before he died.

Newly released tapes of President John F Kennedy’s private meetings reveal him comment on what would become the day of his funeral.

Beyonce Knowles' birthing suite is being prepared in New York.

US police are hoping to catch a man who robbed a convenience store while wearing pants on his head.

Kings of Leon's cancelled US tour could cost up to $15m (€10.5m).

Kings of Leon have cancelled their US tour after singer Caleb Followill was hit by vocal problems and exhaustion.

OWEN WILSON looks very skinny, almost frail when he walks through the corridor of Renaissance hotel in Hollywood, surrounded by his retinue of publicists and handlers.