The only woman on the US state of Georgia’s death row was executed early yesterday, making her the first woman put to death by the state in seven decades.

By John Connolly

Graham Dwyer said he would have killed Elaine O’Hara if she asked him to, the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.

This time last year, Mystic Menu sat down before his crystal ball and threw out some predictions.

Irish film Glassland is one of just 12 films chosen for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in the US state of Utah.

Liberia may be seeing a decline in the spread of ebola, with falls in the number of burials and new admissions as well as a plateau in laboratory-confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.

A body found in a ravine in the US state of Washington is that of missing actress Misty Upham, the King County medical examiner has confirmed.

RAVENS, according to a study in the US state of Idaho, are changing their behaviour. These huge crows used to live only around mountains, desert anyons and sea cliffs. Now they are nesting on phone masts, buildings and steel towers.

A morgue attendant in the US state of Ohio has admitted to having sex with up to 100 corpses, media reported. 

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Betting services giant Paddy Power hopes to make meaningful progress on plans to expand its online gaming business into the US by the end of the year.

Teachers and school staff in the US state of South Dakota are to be given the right to carry guns in order to protect schoolchildren.

Up to 25 people have been injured after a car was driven into a crowded town square in the US state of Ohio, police said.

American Jim Yong Kim has been chosen to be the next president of the World Bank.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza and four other terrorist suspects wanted by the US authorities will be handed over “as quickly as possible”, according to the British home secretary.

Violent weather including possible tornadoes roared across the US state of Alabama today, injuring dozens of people and killing at least two.

A last-ditch clemency plea from death row inmate Troy Davis has been rejected in the US state of Georgia.

THAI authorities have arrested an American citizen on charges he insulted the country’s monarchy, in part by posting a link on his blog four years ago to a banned book about the Southeast Asian nation’s ailing king.

AMERICA’S bats are dying in their hundreds of thousands due to a mysterious illness called white-nose syndrome, and efforts to save them could prevent billions of dollars in agricultural losses, scientists say.

Japan was struck by a magnitude-8.8 earthquake off its north-eastern coast today, triggering a 13-foot tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast near the epicentre.

Somali pirates freed a hijacked South Korean-operated supertanker and its 24 crew after seven months of captivity, officials said amid reports that a record ransom was paid.

Pop star Lady Gaga visited the US state of Maine on the eve of a key Senate vote to urge its two US senators to help repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays.

Justin Bieber narrowly escaped arrest after throwing a water balloon at a US State Trooper.

Brazil’s president said “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation.

Trinity College Dublin was today ranked the 43rd best university in the world in a top international survey.

Health Minister Mary Harney is due to attend an emergency EU meeting in Luxembourg today to coordinate efforts to prevent the spread of swine flu in Europe.

Tánaiste Mary Coughlan is due to officially open an IDA office in the US state of California today.

Authorities searched a home in the US state of Colorado early today, seeking any link between two deadly shooting sprees at Christian religious centres that left both communities baffled and stunned.

Jon Bon Jovi has denied reports he is planning on following Arnold Schwarzenegger into politics by running for governor of the US state of New Jersey.

Officials in the US state of Texas are today preparing for Hurricane Dean.

A powerful earthquake shook Peru’s coast, killing at least 17 people as it toppled buildings and caused hundreds to flee office buildings.

The world’s oldest person has dies in a nursing home in Japan at the age of 114, an official said today.

A TORPEDO sank the Lusitania in the First World War and today the weather is doing its best to sink plans to explore her.

Mike Tyson was arrested early today on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of cocaine after police in the US state of Arizona stopped him shortly after he left a Scottsdale nightclub.

Murder suspect John Mark Karr today awaited expulsion to the US where questions mounted over whether his confession to the killing of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey would stand up.

A C-5 cargo plane carrying 17 people crashed near Dover Air Force Base in the US state of Delaware early today, state officials said.

An Irish woman in her 50s has died in an overnight bus crash in the US state of Tennessee.

The 38-year-old man charged in connection with an alleged air rage incident yesterday morning is due back in court later today.

THREE children were killed and a woman critically injured in a fiery crash early yesterday in the US state of Washington after the woman’s boyfriend held them at gunpoint in the car and then doused them with gasoline and set them afire, authorities said.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is representing the European Union at a G8 summit in the US state of Georgia today.

UNLOVED and lonely children are most at risk from internet paedophiles, according to a Cork-based expert.

The US state of Oklahoma has executed its first person this year.

Gay scoutmasters are being allowed in a US state under a new "don't ask - don't tell" policy despite the national scout association's ban on homosexuals.