Tori Amos played her first gig in a gay bar when she was just 13 years old.

The US has accused Iranian government agents of plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, immediately using the thwarted plot to step up sanctions and recruit international allies in a bid to further isolate Tehran.

A PACKED Caribbean Airlines passenger jet skidded off a runway as it landed in Guyana at night on Saturday, then broke in two at the edge of a ravine.

Its capital, Kuala Lumpur, may feel like the set of Bladerunner, but Malaysia has a rich cultural and culinary mix, great beaches and amazing sights, including orang-utans, writes Pól Ó Conghaile

The decapitated body of a 16-year-old girl was found inside a suitcase that was thrown into a creek and weighted down with dumbbells, and police in Guyana said that her mother and two others were detained.

IRELAND captain William Porterfield says his team have a point to prove when they face England tonight in their final ICC Twenty20 group game at Guyana National Stadium.

Ireland captain William Porterfield was left to rue a “massive missed opportunity” after a batting collapse handed the West Indies an opening ICC World Twenty20 victory by 70 runs in Guyana last night.

A software engineer furious with the US tax agency launched a suicide attack by crashing his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 employees.

ON a spring day nearly two years ago, Senator Edward Kennedy sat on the porch of his sprawling Hyannis Port home with a friend of five decades, Edmund Reggie, father of Kennedy’s wife, Vicki. The two men gazed out at the ocean that has been such an anchor in Kennedy’s life and talked about the future.

IN Washington DC at the weekend, the Bush joke books piled high in the stores’ discount sections told their own story.

Microsoft is investing heavily in research and development as it prepares for a software revolution, Bill Gates told the North's Economy Minister Nigel Dodds at a meeting in the US today.

Gunmen stormed into a coastal village in Guyana early today and shot dead 11 people, President Bharrat Jagdeo said. It was the worst mass killing in the small South American nation in more than 30 years.

Five hydroelectric plant workers trapped inside an empty water tunnel during a chemical blaze have died, police said today.

Amish students who survived a shooting in the US that killed five of their classmates are planning to move into a new building on Monday, six months to the day after the massacre at the Pennsylvania school.

IF YOU’VE a million dollars to spend on a new home and a three-bed semi in south Dublin doesn’t catch your imagination, those willing to travel can find exotic alternatives.

Amish families gathered today to bury four of the five girls gunned down inside their tiny rural schoolhouse.

Hurricane Ophelia picked up strength as it closed in on North Carolina today, but many in the storm's path had shrugged off the threat of wind and flooding rain and ignored pleas to evacuate.

The Royal Mail mistakenly sent Christmas post bound for a south Atlantic British colony to Paraguay and the Caribbean, it emerged tonight.

Jackie Kennedy considered asking her husband’s brother Robert to bring up their young children following the American president’s assassination in 1963, it was claimed today.

Jacqueline Kennedy, books under her arm, walks with fellow students to an American history class.

A set of septuplets born in just three minutes was today said to be doing well but will remain ‘‘critical’’ for the next few days.