Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump likened his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States to World War II policies implemented by US president Franklin Roosevelt against people of Japanese, German and Italian descent.

A Japanese Second World War submarine wreck has been found partially buried in the seabed of a Papua New Guinea harbour.

THE last US veteran of World War I, who lied about his age to join the army in 1917, has died, ending America’s living connection with the Great War.

THE NFL’s oldest rivalry will be played out on its greatest possible stage tomorrow evening as the Green Bay Packers visit the Chicago Bears in the NFC Championship game (8pm, Irish time).

X FACTOR sensation Mary Byrne yesterday gave away the secret of next weekend’s song – and admitted she is shrinking.

WHATEVER one thinks of how the Government is handling the economic crisis, there is widespread agreement that our leaders could be doing a better job in communicating with the rest of us about what is going on and what the future may hold for us.

BBC viewers voted Winston Churchill as ‘Britain’s Greatest’. He is remembered as the man who saved them during the Second World War, but he was undoubtedly one of Ireland’s greatest scourges. As Minister for War in 1920 he was the politician most responsible for the Black and Tans.

LABOUR spokesperson on finance Joan Burton mentioned on Black Thursday, September 30, 2010 that “the date of 29 September 2008 is as steeped in infamy in Ireland’s history as Pearl Harbour was for the generation of Americans led by President Franklin Roosevelt”.

VETERANS of World War II marked the 65th anniversary of the Allies’ victory over Japan yesterday in a solemn ceremony attended by Prince Charles and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

AN American pilot who dismissed initial reports of what turned out to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died aged 96.

Fareed Zakaria reports on the empty political debate concerning Obama’s healthcare reform plan

UNPOPULAR but unbowed, President George W Bush defended his tumultuous two terms in a farewell address to the nation on Thursday night, claiming a hard-won record of achievement.

The head of the Japanese airforce has been sacked for claiming his country was not an “aggressor” in the Second World War.

JAPAN’S fanatical Second World War leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep on fighting even after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, documents released show.

Japan’s fanatical Second World War leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep on fighting even after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, documents released today show.

The way conspiracy theories grow demonstrates the need for investigations to be seen to be thorough and impartial.

A NOTE from the British Trust for Ornithology (the ‘BTO’) says that a sparrowhawk, ringed by me, has been found in Malahide.

Ben Affleck angered fans at a baseball game on Sunday, when he attempted to catch a foul ball and interfered with the game

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are relocating from Los Angeles to Boston, Massachusetts to raise their eight-month-old daughter Violet.

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush's Republican Party, branding right-wing politicians "self-serving scoundrels".

The United States is “crossing the rubicon into space weaponisation” with a little-known missile programme, a senior government official said today.

Sixty-two years after Pearl Harbour the US Navy is returning control of a sacred island to Hawaiians.

The rousing presidential speech in Independence Day has been named the cheesiest movie moment of all time.

A MOROCCAN accused of aiding the German al-Qaida cell in planning the September 11 attacks was involved in the plot from the start, prosecutors alleged at the opening of his trial yesterday.

Pearl Harbour star Kate Beckinsale has become engaged to marry the director of her latest film.

The deadly car bombings of residential compounds in Riyadh could be followed by more attacks on Americans, US officials warned, amid stepped up security by Saudi officials and rumours of more attacks in the already jittery capital.

THE US administrator for Baghdad was to leave her post yesterday amid criticism over the slow pace of reconstruction, as Washington’s new top official for Iraq flew into the Gulf charged with rebuilding the country.

Hugh Lytle, whose teletype message provided the world with the first account of the attack on Pearl Harbour has died. He was 100.

Speaking at a firefighter's funeral in New York, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, compared the bravery of today's emergency services team to their predecessors who served their country at Pearl Harbour.

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.

President Bush put all American military forces overseas on high alert tonight.

The cabinet sub-committee on security has met at Government buildings in Dublin to discuss the implications of the terrorist attacks on the US for Irish people.

US Navy officers met today with local Japanese Government officials to explain possible disciplinary action facing the skipper of a submarine that sank a Japanese high school fishing training vessel.

The captain of the Japanese trawler smashed to pieces by a surfacing US Navy submarine has told a military inquiry of the terrifying incident that killed nine people.

The next US Defence Secretary says the country faces another Pearl Harbour-style attack but this time on its space satellites.