PRESIDENT George W Bush was today being urged to ease the plight of up to 50,000 illegal Irish immigrants in the US as Bertie Ahern visited the White House.

Barack Obama, locked in a tight and contentious race with Hillary Clinton, is tipped to win today’s primary in Mississippi as the two Democrats battled for every last delegate in their historic contest for the party’s presidential nomination.

The Illinois senator is favoured to win in today’s nominating race, writes John Dunbar

A painting by famed Spanish artist Francisco de Goya was stolen as it was being transported to a US exhibition at New York City's Guggenheim Museum.

An American version of Ricky Gervais’s hit show The Office launches in the United States tomorrow night.

President George Bush and newly-crowned Democratic standard-bearer John Kerry wasted no time blasting each other at the official start of the US general election campaign, trading identical criticisms that the other was short on accomplishments.

Sharon Osbourne has been released from hospital after undergoing surgery for colon cancer.