US PRESIDENT Barack Obama spent a few hours as a tourist this weekend, seeing Paris with his wife and two young girls after his trip to the Middle East, Germany and the beaches of Normandy.

US President Barack Obama today praised the British Blitz spirit as thousands of veterans, servicemen and their families gathered in Normandy to mark the 65th anniversary of D-Day.

The global recession, Afghanistan, Iran and Middle East peace topped the agenda of talks today between President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy before the leaders commemorated the D-Day invasion that cemented the trans-Atlantic alliance.

SIXTY-FIVE years after he first saw the beaches of Normandy from behind a gun on the deck of a US Navy landing craft on D-Day, John ‘Harry’ Kellers will return to receive one of France’s highest honours today.

US President Barack Obama was seeing for homself the horrors of a concentration camp today during a visit to Germany.

The opening minutes of Saving Private Ryan have been voted the best movie battle scenes of all time.

PAUL KINSELLA (Irish Examiner letters, June 6) expresses shock and horror at seeing American soldiers in “full uniform” in a bar in Ennis.

LEADERS from more than a dozen countries yesterday put aside disputes over Iraq to thank the Allied forces who fought one of the most decisive military battles ever in the D-Day invasion that broke Nazi Germany's grip on Europe.

President George W. Bush said today it would be a disaster if America’s partners pulled troops out of Iraq.