Three Liberian health workers receiving an experimental drug to treat Ebola are showing signs of recovery, officials say.

Health officials in Liberia fear Ebola could spread through capital city Monrovia’s largest slum after residents raided a quarantine centre for suspected patients and took items including blood-stained sheets and mattresses.

Playing for pride might sound trite and defeatist but it has different and meaningful connotations for Ian Galvin as he gears up his New York team to face Mayo in Gaelic Park this Sunday.

A seven-year-old who broke his elbow playing on a bouncy castle was yesterday awarded €50,000 compensation against the owners.

Truth is, retired Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf didn’t care much for his popular “Stormin’ Norman” nickname.

Members of the US Congress are demanding more details about the FBI investigation that unmasked an extramarital affair between ex-CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer.

US president Barack Obama said last night his re-election means Americans support his approach for avoiding a looming “fiscal cliff” that threatens a new recession — and that his approach means the country’s wealthiest people will have to pay more in taxes.

David Petraeus has resigned as the director of US intelligence agency the CIA after admitting he had an extra-marital affair.

A GROUP of elite cadets from the US military academy at West Point will this week visit schools in Limerick to share with hundreds of primary students the excitement that engineering and science have to offer.

Afghanistan’s former intelligence chief said today he knew Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan four years ago, but his claims were rejected by the country’s leaders.

General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, took the stage where presidential candidates have debated but said his visit had nothing to do with politics or New Hampshire, home to the first presidential primaries.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama was last night expected to announce he would send 30,000-34,000 more troops to Afghanistan over six months, an accelerated timetable – with an endgame built in – that would have the first marines there by Christmas.

The US State Department's former number two said the practice of waterboarding terror suspects was torture and he hoped he would have had the courage to resign had he known the CIA was using the interrogation technique.

A US Marine wanted by the Army for absconding from his unit and who killed himself after crossing the border into Canada, had served two terms in Iraq, officials said today.

GENERAL William Westmoreland, who commanded US troops in the Vietnam War, has died aged 91.

Retired Gen William Westmoreland, who commanded American troops in the Vietnam War – the nation’s longest conflict and the only war America lost – has died at age 91.

DOZENS of civilians have been killed in fighting between rebels and President Charles Taylor's forces for control of Liberia's second city of Buchanan, residents said yesterday.