On Monday, a number of cowardly, horrific attacks on innocent people occurred, both in Boston and Iraq.

The Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg says the total cost to the city of Hurricane Sandy is over $19bn (€14.6bn).

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.

Visit the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris and chestnut trees shade you as you wander among graves of luminaries such as Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison.

Nearly 1.8 million people in the eastern US faced another sweltering day without power as the death toll from weekend summer storms rose to 22.

More than two million people across the eastern US lost power after violent storms and five people died, including a 90-year-old woman asleep in bed when a tree slammed into her home, police have said.

The man who once bragged about planning September 11 "from A to Z" may mount a defence after all to charges that he orchestrated the worst terror attack in US history, with families of the dead watching intently from the US on closed-circuit TV.

At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia’s mountains, authorities announced, as the death toll from Eastern Europe’s week-long deep freeze rose to 122.

MILLIONS of Christmas travellers were caught in the wintry grip of a massive blizzard yesterday that brought chaos to air, road and train transit across the eastern United States.

Police have captured a drug kingpin blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico.

A strike by Spirit Airlines pilots has shut down the budget carrier, stranding thousands of travellers.

The political future of a state governor who visited his mistress in Argentina after indicating he was off hiking in the US hung in the balance today.

SOUTH Carolina Governor Mark Sanford returned to the US yesterday from a secret private trip to Argentina, ending days of speculation over his whereabouts and raising questions about his judgment.

A massive mile-thick brown pollution haze has settled over vast areas of the planet, changing weather patterns and threatening health and crops, according to the UN.

Donal Hickey on how windfarms affect nature.

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.

Coastal Long Island in the US could see some of its worst flooding in 14 years when a hard-blowing nor'easter begins whipping through New York today, officials said.

A crew of Colombian drug dealers turned purebred puppies into drug couriers by surgically implanting them with packets of liquid heroin, according to US authorities.

The US, in conjunction with other oil consuming nations, expects to release 2 million barrels a day of crude oil and petrol from US and international emergency government reserves to counter supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Katrina, administration officials said today.

Dutch retailer Ahold hopes to sell two of its US supermarket businesses by the end of 2004.

Cars, recreational vehicles and SUVs streamed inland from North Carolina’s coast as up to 90,000 people were urged to get out of the way of Hurricane Isabel, the most powerful storm in four years to menace the eastern US.

AIB BANK is expected to go on a share buy-back spree when it gets more that €900 million in cash following the approval of the sale of troubled subsidiary Allfirst to M&T Bank by the US Federal Reserve.

Fish stocks in the Atlantic could be wiped out within a decade forcing trawlers to hunt jelly fish and even plankton to make ‘fake’ products, according to experts.