Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate, according to a source.

Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player for the E Street Band who was one of the key influences in Bruce Springsteen's life and music through four decades, has died. He was 69.

A senior US Navy officer has been removed from command of an aircraft carrier over raunchy comedy videos he made and showed to the crew.

A winter storm made travel torturous in north-east America, dropping a thick layer of snow that stranded thousands of airline, train and bus passengers and made motorists think twice about hitting post-Christmas sales.

The trial of two former US defence contractors charged with the deaths of two Afghan nationals was getting under way today.

US naval forces said they have captured five pirates after exchanging fire with them, sinking their boat and confiscating a larger ship.

THE company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck next year.

The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck next year, it emerged today.

FORMER Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery has been sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for his role in a cheque-fraud scheme.

Four Irish people were rescued from their stricken Antarctic Ocean cruise ship today after the vessel struck an iceberg.

There are reports that four Irish people are among the 100 passengers that had to be rescued from a stricken cruise liner in the Antarctic Ocean today.

Ford Motor Company today said it planned to cut 10,000 more salaried jobs, offer buyouts to all 75,000 hourly workers and shut down two more plants as part of a dramatic restructuring plan designed to rein in expenses and restore the struggling US vehicle maker to profitability.

The extradition case involving a Cork couple wanted in the United States over the alleged kidnapping of their grandson was adjourned at the High Court today for two weeks.

US vice presidential adviser Lewis Libby was today indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak case.

Families of the 17 sailors killed in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole can pursue a lawsuit against the government of Sudan, a federal judge has decided.

A HALLIBURTON company will build a new$30 million (€24.5m) detention facility and security fence at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects.

The man challenging George Bush for the White House, Senator John Kerry, arrived tonight in Boston where his followers are gathered for the pre-election Democratic National Convention.

Residents up and down the US east coast boarded up windows and the military ordered ships and planes out of harm’s way as Hurricane Isabel headed toward land with 120mph winds.

AUTHOR Leon Uris, an immigrant’s determined son who made it big with the best-selling Exodus and other hugely popular novels, has died, his ex-wife said yesterday. He was 78.

Police in the United States are still searching for a man suspected of kidnapping an Irish nun and cutting off her head, hands and feet.

Police in the US believed tonight they had found the dismembered body of an Irish nun who had been abducted by a 25-year-old man shortly after he had murdered his father.

US police are tonight hunting a man who abducted two nuns, one of them Irish, after killing his father in Georgia.

The Pentagon has ordered the US Navy to prepare two aircraft carriers and two amphibious assault vessels for possible action in Iraq.

An American who defrauded Internet auction shoppers out of more than €93,000 has been jailed for 12 years in what prosecutors said was the stiffest penalty ever for such an offence.

US military officials have revealed a soldier who fell out of a Chinook helicopter was later executed by al-Qaida fighters.

Aircraft carriers and guided missile destroyers moved into the waters near New York and Washington after President George Bush placed the US military on its highest alert status.

A US Navy fighter jet has been reported missing in southern Florida.