A gunman who murdered three Louisiana police officers in an ambush "was seeking out police", investigators have confirmed.

A Colorado inmate has filed a paternity claim with a Minnesota court against the estate of Prince, claiming the musician is his biological father.

The Papal Nuncio to Ireland has said a papal visit is “possible”.

The militarisation of policing must stop in wake of Ferguson shooting, writes Joseph D. McNamara

Miley Cyrus has been taken to hospital and has cancelled a concert after suffering a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics.

America’s sweeping surveillance programmes have foiled 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange, according to the director of the National Security Agency (NSA).

America’s sweeping surveillance programmes have foiled 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange, according to the director of the National Security Agency.

Gun enthusiasts thronged to shows around the United States over the weekend to buy assault weapons they fear will soon be outlawed after a massacre of school children in Connecticut prompted calls for tighter controls on firearms.

Arsenal’s spending but Stan Kroenke says he’s in for the long haul

President Barack Obama tried to tarnish Mitt Romney as a corporate titan who got rich by cutting rather than creating jobs, opening a new effort to undercut the likely Republican nominee’s claims that his business background is just what America needs in a time of deep economic uncertainty.

Protests against Wall Street spread across the US as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed.

A famed black-and-red calfskin jacket that Michael Jackson wore in the classic Thriller video was sold at auction for $1.8m (€1.27m).

A US federal grand jury is investigating whether last year’s murder of a Kansas abortion doctor was connected to a broader case involving radical anti-abortion activists, a federal law enforcement official familiar with the case said.

Fifty-one-year-old Scott Roeder has been convicted of the murder of one of the only doctors in the US who offered late-term abortions.

Lawyers prosecuting a man who gunned down a controversial pro-abortion doctor had to get through the first day of evidence without mentioning the word “abortion” in front of jurors.

TALIBAN militants wearing suicide vests and police uniforms stormed a guest house used by UN staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early yesterday, killing 11 people, including six UN staff. It was the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine next month’s presidential runoff election.

US President Barack Obama condemned the killing of an anti-abortion activist in Michigan as activists and others gathered for a vigil near the site where he was fatally shot.

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said he had to “hold his nose” over last year’s taxpayer-funded bailouts of financial giants.

Walter Cronkite was remembered as a great journalist, sailor, friend and father during services that, despite the grandeur of the setting, felt remarkably comfortable – like the man.

Republican US presidential candidate John McCain criticised his Democratic rival Barack Obama today for announcing his Iraq policy before visiting the country later this month.

Singing legend Tina Turner is coming out of retirement for a new tour.

Actress Mary McDonnell has been granted a restraining order against a stalker after the crazed fan posted photographs of the star's children online.

A MAN threw his seriously ill wife four storeys to her death because he could no longer afford to pay for her medical care, US prosecutors said in charging him with second-degree murder.

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne is back on tour after a brief health scare at the weekend.

THE Irish representatives had mixed fortunes at the US Junior Handball Championships which concluded in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday night.

A man killed five people, including three of his children, before shooting himself dead, US police said today.

A FOUR-DAY-OLD girl who was cut from her strangled mother’s womb was in “remarkably good” condition yesterday, a hospital spokeswoman said, and the alleged attacker faced an initial court appearance.

The four-day-old girl who was cut from her strangled mother’s womb was in “remarkably good” condition today as the alleged attacker faced an initial court appearance.

A woman charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was showing the child off to people at a café and to her pastor hours before she was arrested, residents said.

American Airlines has announced plans to lay off as many as 1,100 pilots, mechanics and other ground staff in the coming months.

A disgruntled worker at a meatpacking plant killed four fellow employees and wounded three others before committing suicide, police said today.

Dublin company FINEOS has announced that Fortis Benefits Insurance Company, one of the Top Five disability providers in the US, has gone live with its claims management solution, FINEOS Disability Claims Manager.