DVDs of Sony’s controversial film The Interview will be dropped into North Korea by balloon, a South Korean activist says.

Protesters rallied across America for a third day over a New York grand jury’s decision not to charge a white police officer over the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.

The true story of an Irish cabin boy eaten by his shipmates is now a play, writes Colette Sheridan

Tracy Morgan was "screaming for help" after being involved in a car accident.

'30 Rock' star Tracy Morgan is "more responsive" but remains in acritical condition after a car crash over the weekend.

Canadian police arrested a man suspected of having shot dead three police officers and wounding two more, ending a massive manhunt.

Justin Bourque, the man suspected of killing three Canadian Mounties and wounding two others has been arrested.

A manhunt is under way in the area around Moncton, New Brunswick, after a shooting in the area.

Five people are reported to have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Canada, as thousands of homes are still without power following last weekend’s ice storm.

Hundreds of people attended the funeral of two Canadian brothers who were killed by a python while they slept at a friend’s home above an exotic pet store.

The manager of a Canadian zoo has said officials are preparing to remove more than a dozen animals from an exotic pet store beneath the apartment where two boys were asphyxiated by a python while they slept.

Firefighters have been unable to continue searching for more victims of the Canadian oil train disaster because the wreckage of the town where it caught fire and exploded is still too dangerous.

A large swath of a town in eastern Quebec was destroyed after a train carrying crude oil derailed, sparking several explosions and forcing the evacuation of up to 1,000 people.

BRIAN FALLON is sharing a favourite anecdote.

He is one of the most iconic recording artists of the 20th century and his influence shaped the global entertainment industry.

More than 100 flights at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport were cancelled and dozens more delayed today after a winter storm hit Canada.

AS the Manchester United first team filed in from training at the Cliff, a young Kevin Grogan stood hopefully with his autograph book at the bottom of the stairs.

No longer a hurricane, Irene spent the last of its fury and sloshed its way into Canada early today, inflicting relatively little damage to New York but leaving a trail of treacherous flooding and millions without power along America’s east coast.

THE US north-east began yesterday to shake off the grip of one of the biggest blizzards in years, but beleaguered travellers faced another day of headaches in New York airports.

A US teenager committed suicide a day after two classmates secretly recorded him having sex with a man and broadcast it over the internet, it has emerged.

RESEARCHERS today announced proof that reptiles were the first vertebrates to conquer dry land with the discovery of 318-million-year-old footprints.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has launched an Irish website during his St Patrick’s visit to the United States.

Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea are retelling the gruesome real-life story of a woman who left a homeless man stuck in the windshield of her car after a hit and run accident in a new movie.

THE main office holders of Limerick County Council have clocked up a huge amount of air travel over the past four years, with foreign trips costing the taxpayer a total of €41, 671.

Divers searched the icy waters of the Gulf of St Lawrence for a missing seal hunter today after recovering the bodies of three other hunters from a fishing boat that capsized as it was being towed by a coast guard ship.

US National Guard C-130s and helicopters with infrared and thermal imaging equipment scoured the soaring peaks and sagebrush desert of north-west Nevada early today for any sign of missing adventurist Steve Fossett.

COFFEE and exercise combine to guard against the dangerous effects of too much sun, new research suggests.

Thousands of students from three schools in Canada were evacuated today after receiving a number of threats.

The number of American children having obesity surgery has trebled in recent years, surging at a pace that could mean more than 1,000 such operations this year, research suggests.

The number of US children having obesity surgery has trebled in recent years, surging at a pace that could mean more than 1,000 such operations this year, research published today suggested.

An American woman who was once told she would never have children has given birth to triplets – for the second time.

THE EU proposal to put graphic images on the front of cigarette packets has only been taken up by two countries - Ireland and Belgium (Irish Examiner, October 23).

PHARMACEUTICAL companies like Wyeth are scaling back or ending research into antibiotics due to a lack of profit potential, even as infections are becoming more resistant to current treatments, microbiologists said.