Russian military jets have carried out air strikes in Syria for the first time, targeting what Moscow said were IS positions.

A global search has been launched to find stories of emigrants who left for America from the then port of Queenstown.

President Barack Obama vowed his administration would respond in a “much more aggressive way” to cases of Ebola in the United States.

WHEN an armed intruder jumped the fence and penetrated deep into the White House, it provided a field day for cartoonists and some members of the House of Representatives - who turned Julia Pierson, the hapless Secret Service director, into a figure of ridicule.

The US Secret Service director has told lawmakers she takes full responsibility for the serious breach of White House security when an Army veteran with a knife climbed the fence and made his way into the executive mansion before he was tackled.

The US will not be sending more troops into combat in Iraq to deal with Islamic militants, but will explore “a range of other options”, Barack Obama has said.

Malala Yousafzai hit back at claims that she has become a figure of the West, insisting she was proud to be a Pakistani.

Republicans are ready to offer the government a temporary debt limit extension, the leader of the US House of Representatives says.

Not content with decimating the White House in his 1996 sci-fi blockbuster ‘Independence Day’, director Roland Emmerich reduces the Washington landmark to rubble again in this preposterous, high-octane action thriller.

A US Senate resolution authorising President Barack Obama to use military force against Syria would bar American ground troops fro combat operations and set a deadline for any action.

A request to have convicted killer Catherine Nevin brought to court as part of a legal row about her husband's assets has been refused.

One Direction have been invited to the White House by Michelle Obama.

AN IDAHO man accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House was charged yesterday with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama or his staff, and prosecutors say he called Obama “the devil” and said he needed to be killed.

Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has appeared on television for the first time since protests erupted demanding his ousting, and he said he will press ahead with social, economic and political reforms.

Ronald Reagan’s son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s disease while he was still in the White House.

A WHITE police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jnr said yesterday he’s disappointed President Barack Obama said officers acted “stupidly,” despite acknowledging he didn’t know all the facts.

Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President George W. Bush’s press secretary, died early today of colon cancer. He was 53.

A NEW YORK state judge has thrown out parts of Dan Rather’s $70 million (€44m) lawsuit against CBS but preserved several key elements, including the former news anchor’s breach of contract claim.

Nicolas Sarkozy began his first visit to Washington as French president with a pledge that France has left behind tensions with the United States over the Iraq war.

The Irish Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey returns from a warm weather camp boasting a nice tan and vowing to be nicer to Cork Blue.

The Irish Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey returns from a warm weather camp boasting a nice tan and vowing to be nicer to Cork Blue.

President Bush has backed Hillary Clinton to win the Democrat nomination for presidential candidate in next year’s elections.

Theatre and dance acts are invading far-flung places all over the globe as part of a bid to promote Irish culture.

Al Qaida’s leader in Iraq today vowed his fighters will never rest until they have blown up the White House and reached Jerusalem.

The Bush administration in Washington is saying it has no plans for radical shifts in Iraq war policy or for ultimatums to the Iraqi government, despite election-year pressure to change course.

US President George Bush comforted distraught relatives of September 11 victims after watching the film about the hijacked United Flight 93 with them.

The US judge in the death-penalty trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has said the case is one of the most complex criminal cases in American history.

The annual Arab League summit was sharply divided even before it began in Sudan today, with late-night wrangling over the wording of the final declaration and the absence of a number of key leaders at a meeting meant to tackle the region’s tricky problems.

US president George Bush marked the anniversary of the Iraq war by touting efforts to build democracy there and avoiding any mention of the daily violence still raging three years after he ordered an invasion.

HARRIET MIERS, US President George Bush’s controversial choice for the Supreme Court, yesterday withdrew her nomination.

CALLOW LAKE is a hopeful choice to provide the answer to the valuable Specsavers Ulster Derby at Down Royal this afternoon.

THE Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall looked relaxed and happy as they posed for official wedding photographs, released yesterday.

THE sisters of murdered Belfast father of two Robert McCartney have decided against contesting elections as part of their campaign to force his killers into court.

SINN FÉIN denied last night that the Bush Administration had banned it from fundraising in America after US Justice Department figures revealed it had raised more than $7 million (€5.26m) since 1995.

Defence stocks in the United States jumped higher, buoyed by expectations that President George Bush’s re-election would benefit the sector.

US President George Bush today won a second term in office from a divided and anxious nation, his promise of steady, strong wartime leadership trumping John Kerry’s fresh-start approach to Iraq and joblessness.

Controversial director Michael Moore claims Mel Gibson backed out of financing his hit documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 after Republican sources told the actor he would never be invited to the White House again.

The White House was evacuated today when a plane flew within five miles of restricted airspace around Washington, the Secret Service said.

A CONTROVERSIAL plan to amalgamate two of Cork City’s best-known schools must go ahead, despite opposition from teachers and parents, the Bishop of Cork and Ross has told the Irish Examiner.

White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, the public face of the Bush administration through two wars and a terrorist attack, is quitting.

The Code Red Internet worm has begun to take hold and has infected at least 22,000 websites, fuelling new fears of a slowdown on the worldwide web.