Police and the FBI are trying to determine whether the killing of three Muslims during a neighbourhood parking and noise dispute was a hate crime.

Three people have been shot to death in the US at a condominium complex east of the University of North Carolina campus and a man has been arrested.

Maria Shriver refused to attend a party after learning Miley Cyrus was also invited.

An east Cork town hopes to reverse a long-term commercial decline on two of its main thoroughfares by transforming the area into an arts quarter.

After walking out of prison for the first time in three decades, former death row inmate Henry McCollum tried to climb into his father’s car but put his head through the loop of the seatbelt that is supposed to cross his chest. A TV cameraman showed him how it works.

BRAZIL: The animal oracle predictions for the World Cup are well under way, with host nation Brazil getting a vote of confidence from its chosen turtle tipster.

Worst. Flight. Ever.

Authorities have issued arrest warrants for the owner of a ride at the North Carolina State Fair that injured five people after safety equipment was tampered with.

An investigation is under way after an accident at the North Carolina State Fair left five people injured.

Accidental shootings at gun shows in North Carolina, Indiana and Ohio this weekend left five people injured.

It takes two hours to drive from Páirc Uí Rinn to Castletownbere.

Senior decision-makers in multinational companies "are considering investing in Ireland but are concerned about the possible fallout of a No vote" in the upcoming EU fiscal treaty referendum, Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has claimed.

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has set off on a trade mission to the US.

BASF, the German chemical company, announced recently that the headquarters of BASF Plant Science, its biotech unit, would be moved from Germany to North Carolina in the US.

It’s a “shop local” drive with a difference. Bridegrooms can win a free wedding by sourcing all their flowers, cars, dresses, suits and so on in one town.

We scan a selection of trading homes from around the countr

Hurricane Irene opened its assault on the Eastern Seaboard today by lashing the North Carolina coast with wind as strong as 115 mph and pounding shoreline homes with waves.

A tornado-spewing storm system that killed at least 45 people across half the US unleashed its worst fury on North Carolina, where residents mourned the dead, marvelled at their survival and began to clean up devastated neighbourhoods.

AT least 45 people were left dead after a powerful storm whipped up tornadoes in seven southern US states.

A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail stones as big as grapefruits has now claimed at least 35 lives across the southern US.

THE recent sale of a farm at Raleigh, Macroom, making €420,000 for 42 acres, augurs well for land sales in the area, says auctioneer Killian Lynch.

A PROPERTY for sale at Coolmore, Churchtown, Co Cork, is attracting continuing interest.

A 42-ACRE farm which hit the market early last year is back with a reduced price. Pleasant, riparian pasture land, the property, at Raleigh, Macroom, has a long history.

IN the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the US, authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates a young cartel’s vast reach north of the border.

Tommy Barker says refurbished property retains original features.

A father, his two sons and four other North Carolina men are accused of military-style training at home and plotting “violent jihad” through a series of terror attacks abroad, federal authorities in the United States said yesterday.

RALEIGH, or Ráth Laoi, Macroom is regarded as one of the more salubrious residential areas of the mid-Cork town.

A lone gunman burst into a US nursing home and started “shooting everything,” barging into the rooms of terrified patients, sparing some from his rampage without explanation while killing seven residents and a nurse caring for them.

IT’S WORTH more than €100 million to the west Cork economy and every year, delegations come from all over the world to learn the secret of its success.

Scot Martin Laird said it would be 'obscene' to even think about making the European Ryder Cup team after moving to the top of the Wyndham Championship leaderboard on seven under par.

Prosecutors in Raleigh, North Carolina today dropped all charges against the three Duke University lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party.

A man believed to have decapitated his four-year-old daughter and leaving the body for her mother to find has been arrested in Washington DC.

Authorities asked about 16,000 residents to evacuate the Raleigh suburb of Apex in North Carolina early today after a hazardous material fire at a US industrial plant.

A leading US medical firm has quietly recalled hundreds of human tissue products destined for transplants around the nation that were supplied by a North Carolina broker believed to have a tainted history.

AMNESTY International yesterday condemned as "absolutely shocking" the execution of the 1,000th prisoner in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Amnesty International today condemned as “absolutely shocking” the execution of the 1,000th prisoner in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Convicted killer Kenneth Lee Boyd was executed early today, becoming the 1000th prisoner put to death since the United States reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

A CONVICTED killer from North Carolina is today set to become the 1,000th person executed in the US since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, barring an unlikely intervention from the federal courts or the state governor.

The fate of a convicted killer from North Carolina, set to become the 1,000th person executed in the US since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, rests today with federal appeals courts and the state’s governor.

Hurricane Ophelia continued its tortuously slow crawl along North Carolina coastline early today as officials feared serious flooding, but do not expect it to make landfall.

Hurricane Ophelia lashed the North Carolina coast with high winds and heavy rains, beginning an anticipated two-day assault that threatened serious flooding and an 11-foot storm surge.

SCIENTISTS may be close to turning Jurassic Park fiction into fact after extracting what look like blood vessels and cells from a Tyrannosaurus rex.

A contractor working for the CIA has been charged in connection with the beating to death of a prisoner in Afghanistan – the first civilian to face criminal charges related to US treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A contractor working for the CIA was indicted today in connection with the beating to death of a prisoner in Afghanistan – the first civilian to face criminal charges related to US treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq.