Stephen Curry scored 36 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 96-88 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder and into an NBA title rematch with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Preliminary civil legal proceedings following the Berkeley balcony collapse are due to commence in Oakland, California, on Monday.

A gunman opened fire last night at a community college in Oregon, killing 13 people and wounding 20, in the latest mass killing to rock a US college, officials and media said.

Even after gunning down a TV news reporter and cameraman during a live interview, Vester Lee Flanagan II continued to rage.

Sixty years ago today, if Swede Hans Jeppson wanted to toast the appearance of his name in the first Guinness Book of Records using the most expensive bottle of wine commercially available, he would have had to spend a staggering £8 on a 1949 Feinste Trockenbeeren Auslese, a white wine from the Rhine Valley.

Clodagh Cogley, one of the survivors of the Berkeley balcony collapse, has received an outpouring of public support following her inspiring words about the tragedy which killed six students, injured seven, and left her unable to walk.

Several people protesting against a grand jury decision not to indict a police officer over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old stormed into City Hall in St Louis, leading police to lock down the building and call in more than a hundred additional officers.

Thousands of people rallied in cities across the US including Los Angeles and New York to passionately but peacefully protest over a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer who killed a black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.

Angry crowds poured into the streets of Ferguson within minutes of news that a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer over the death of an unarmed black 18-year-old.

Man’s own dog helps police bust him on drug charge

Merril Garbus tells Ed Power why she’s so looking forward to performing at Electric Picnic

This week, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum go back undercover in the raucous comedy sequel ‘22 Jump Street’ and Nicole Kidman stars as a film star, who is asked to play the role of a lifetime, in ‘Grace of Monaco’.

A lone gunman armed with a shotgun and a knife opened fire in a Seattle university building, killing one person before a student subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload.

Legendary rock guitarist Carlos Santana has been reunited with a former bandmate he had not seen in decades and who now lives on the streets.

Seven people have been injured in two shootings near a park in Oakland, California, police said.

As the Obamas and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth can all testify, Irish people are still considered to be among the friendliest in the world.

IN THE US something very interesting is happening, it’s virtually a grassroots revolution.

I'M just back from the 2012 edition of the international Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre, Slow Food’s biannual event which brings together small-scale farmers, artisan producers, fishermen, experts, academics, chefs and young people from over 160 countries.

Green Day are releasing a trilogy of albums.

THE encampment is gone, but the movement lives on.

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.

IRAN’S state news agency reports that the two Americans freed from a Tehran prison after more than two years in custody have been flown out of Iran.

Two American men arrested more than two years ago while hiking along the Iraq-Iran border have been sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage and illegally entering Iran, state TV reported today.

TRUST the Americans to come up with novel ways of getting rid of unwanted and wilted Christmas trees in an environmentally-friendly way.

A senior Iranian prosecutor said today that authorities will release a jailed American woman on $500,000 (€393,000) bail because of health problems, another sudden about-face by Iran in a case that has added to tension with the United States.

A WHITE former transit police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man last year in Oakland, California, sparking a wave of looting and destruction in the city on Thursday night.

A white former transport policeman was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for shooting an unarmed black man on a station platform in an encounter that sparked days of rioting in Oakland, California.

Legendary rockers Aerosmith have announced dates for a North American summer tour.

A fresh tsunami alert rang out in the capital of Samoa in the South Pacific today, hours after tsunami waves crashed ashore, killing at least 39 people and leaving scores unaccounted for.

Jennifer Hudson has postponed a string of dates on her US tour after falling ill with a throat infection.

A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and "lying in wait" killed three officers responding to a domestic disturbance call, turning a quiet street into a battlefield.

A man opened fire on police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call in Pittsburgh, US, killing three of them, according to police department official.

Claims by a Pakistani militant leader that his group was responsible for the shootings in New York are “opportunistic” and there is no evidence to support them, a leading terror expert said today.

NOTHING is more appropriate than the fact that America will today celebrate the annual public holiday dedicated to the memory of Reverend Martin Luther King.

New Orleans is the most violent US city, with more than 19,000 reported crimes and 208 murders in 2007, according to a study released Monday.

Eco-activists blamed for fires that destroyed three environmentally friendly millionaires-row homes and damaged two others may have used only simple materials to exploit a legal loophole and avoid a huge jail sentence, it was claimed today.

In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine internet search leader Google and will instead focus on a narrower lifestyle market of married women.

Flight experts combing the Nevada wilderness for adventurer Steve Fossett have spotted several uncharted crash sites that may finally provide answers for families of those who took off into the desert sky decades ago, never to be heard from again.

US singer Avril Lavigne is being sued by members of a 1970s rock band who claim her hit song Girlfriend rips off one of their tunes.

US singer Avril Lavigne is being sued by members of a 1970s rock band who claim her hit song Girlfriend rips off one of their tunes.

An Oakland, California man who was charged with stalking action man-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has been put on probation for three years.

The Rolling Stones have disappointed more fans by cancelling an upcoming concert in Hawaii and rescheduling three other performances.

Coffee may counteract alcohol’s poisonous effects on the liver and help prevent cirrhosis, US researchers say.

Prosecutors will not pursue the death penalty for a mother who threw her three boys into San Francisco Bay.