USA: To a girl aged two in South Carolina, struggling to get dressed is an emergency. The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office says the child called 911, asking for help getting dressed.

At Dooley’s Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history.

A gunman who killed nine people during a shooting spree at a Charleston church should get the death penalty, South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has said.

A childhood friend of the man accused of shooting dead nine people inside a black church in South Carolina said he told him a few weeks ago he had “a plan”.

A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible study group at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested yesterday. Officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime.

ROUND about now you’ll start to notice it: a general untidiness among even the cuff-linkiest of work colleagues. Go on, ask them. They’re just ITCHING to tell you.

Mary Soames, the last surviving child of Winston Churchill, has died, it was announced yesterday.

Half a century of service since his ordination, a Franciscan friar is still dedicated to his work and his faith in Killarney.

Garda Jim Herlihy details the extraordinary life and times of Patrick Joseph ‘PJ’ Kerrigan, an ex-RIC member, soldier in two armies, and bigamist, who became the first Civic Guard of the Irish Free State

The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club

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MARGARET Thatcher complained in private about the numbers of immigrants coming to Britain from south Asia, saying they were being given council houses at the expense of “white citizens”, it was disclosed yesterday.

A SHIP’S salvage, from the 1928 stricken White Star liner, The Celtic, is an unusual find in an equally unusual Cork house and property sale.

Robert Mugabe’s brazen power grab in Zimbabwe’s election saga has left cracks in one of African leaders’ unspoken rules – never turn on one of your own.

Mugabe has gradually made the impossible possible: restoring Ian Smith’s historical reputation.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s government raided the offices of the main opposition movement and rounded up foreign journalists tonight in an ominous indication that he may use intimidation and violence to keep his grip on power.

Zimbabwe goes to the polls tomorrow amid hopes of a change from the ruinous rule of president Robert Mugabe and fears of vote rigging on a massive scale.

Thousands of Zimbabweans flocked to closing election campaign rallies today as opposition hopefuls urged people to be on guard against any attempts at rigging by President Robert Mugabe.

I NOTE with interest the project about L Ron Hubbard brought to your readers’ attention by Gerard Ryan of the Office of Special Affairs of the Scientology Mission in Dublin (Letters, December 10).

Ian Smith, the last prime minister of white-ruled Rhodesia, whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, has died, according to a family friend. He was 88.

FRANCE’S best-known mercenary Bob Denard, who had a hand in numerous African wars and coups d’etat over 30 years, has died at the age of 78.

THE Government is taking steps to ensure the safety of the 4,000 Irish citizens in Zimbabwe, Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has said.

The US, Britain and France are looking ahead to sanctions if Iran continues to defy demands that it halt uranium enrichment, but not the sweeping economic and military embargoes the UN Security Council imposed on Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

A MEMBER of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement posed as a printer for a job interview to prove that Rhodesian companies were targeting Irish workers under the pretence that they were recruiting for South Africa.

President Robert Mugabe lashed out at church leaders who have been among the most outspoken critics of Zimbabwe’s human rights record.

CHINESE-MADE jet fighters flew over independence celebrations at which President Robert Mugabe declared he had no need for Western help or Western-style democracy.

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe branded opposition supporters as traitors yesterday, raising fears of political violence ahead of Zimbabwe's general election.

Tony Blair tonight led the tributes to the Queen Mother, saying she had been a symbol of Britain’s ‘‘decency and courage’’.