For a person who engages in terrorist activity like that in Boston, the immediate victims are meaningless. They’re simply a means to an end, writes Stephanie Pappas

A commemorative plaque was unveiled at the Imperial Hotel in Cork yesterday to mark a visit to the city 167 years ago by one of the most iconic figures in American history.

A long-lost mummy has been returned to a US university after sitting in a police property room for years.

UNFULFILLED potential is unforgivable in American sport.

Scientists are a step closer to finding a cure for MRSA, experts said today.

POLICE authorities in the Maryland town of Prince George have suspended a sergeant who was at the scene of a beating last month of an unarmed University of Maryland student that occurred after crowds took to the streets to celebrate a basketball win.

Barack Obama said he was tough enough to lift America up and out of a period of divisive and ineffective government today as he looks set to overtake Hillary Clinton in the race for delegates.

A SPACECRAFT that made history in 2005 by firing a torpedo probe into a comet is setting off on a 1.6 billion mile journey across the solar system.

Thirteen news organisations shared the honours in the journalism categories at the annual Pulitzer Prizes, which covered a wide variety of subjects in a year when no single event dominated the front pages. A live jazz recording won in the music category for the first time.

Israeli-American Robert Aumann and American Thomas Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today for their work in game-theory analysis.

Corkman Professor Patrick O’Shea has been named as the new Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland in the US.

There is broad international support for widening membership of the United Nations Security Council and giving the organisation more power, according to a poll published today.

Colin Powell’s disappointing Mideast peace mission is prompting painful soul searching in Washington about what can be done to keep Israeli-Palestinian violence from hurtling into all-out war.

Two people were killed on the University of Maryland campus and at least 50 others injured when a tornado ripped through suburban Washington.

During 15 years in orbit, Russia’s Mir space station survived fires, collisions and equipment failure.

NASA is preparing to launch a laboratory for the international space station.