Thousands of guests in animal costumes were evacuated from a US hotel after a chlorine gas leak – then ushered across the road to a convention centre hosting a dog show!

GIRAFFE KICK

Golf clubs get a bad rap and sometimes deservedly so.

US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have closed out their hard-fought battle for the White House, yielding centre stage to voters who face a stark choice on election day between fundamentally different visions for the country’s future.

President Barack Obama tried to regain his footing after a disappointing debate performance in which Republican Mitt Romney aggressively challenged the president’s stewardship of the economy.

Health officials in the US are still looking for 15 passengers who were on a flight in which a bat flew inside the airplane’s cabin so they can protect them against the possibility of rabies.

AN ESCAPED convict allegedly murdered an elderly woman as part of a bizarre plot aimed at assassinating US President Barack Obama after a cross-country killing spree, court records showed.

Thousands of blackbirds plummeted to their deaths in front of horrified New Year revellers in a small Arkansas town.

A JOINT venture announcement at this week’s World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin, heralds the latest chapter in the ambitions of Co Carlow-based nutrition and feed mixer company, Keenan.

A fierce storm blamed for at least 17 deaths left dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds in its wake as it as it made its way from America’s Midwest to the New England region.

An Irish couple with deep-rooted GAA connections in Kerry and Galway have died in a road crash in the US.

Barack Obama has taken the lead in the race to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee with a clean sweep of victories in the Potomac primary election.

AMERICAN doctors are testing a radical new way to help smokers quit — an injection that “immunises” them against the nicotine rush that fuels their addiction.

DEMOCRATIC presidential challenger John Kerry yesterday ripped into US President George Bush for saying he had no regrets over his “Mission Accomplished” speech on Iraq.

“ON the eve of his recent sojourn in Europe, President Bush had an unpleasant run-in with a species of creature he had not previously encountered often — a journalist.”

Singer Howie Day was arrested for apparently locking a woman in a bathroom and breaking another woman’s mobile phone after one of them allegedly refused his sexual advances.

AN owl found starving in the wild because it had gone blind is to be released again after having new eye lenses implanted.

One of Canada’s most celebrated writers has cancelled a book tour after complaining of racial profiling at US airports.