Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $1m to a US hospital.

Hollywood actor Brad Pitt and his family have made a $1m (€720,000) donation to a Missouri hospital to assist with pediatric care and cancer research.

Following a three-month break from the game, Cavan’s Paul Brady returns to competitive handball action this weekend where he takes on Antrim’s Owen McKenna in the DALKIA Senior Singles quarter-final.

Tornadoes swept through portions of the Midwestern United States, killing at least three people in Missouri and blowing roofs off homes in Illinois and Arkansas.

US mob boss Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, who avoided jail for decades by wandering Manhattan streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness, has died in prison.

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.

President George Bush launched a counter-offensive against his election rival John Kerry today, hours after the Senator delivered a blistering attack on the decision to go to war with Iraq.

Brad Pitt was in the middle of filming Troy in Malta when wife Jennifer Aniston asked what he’d gotten his mom for Mother’s Day.

John Gotti, the 'Dapper Don' who was America's top mobster has died in prison where he was serving a life sentence.