Dissident Republicans planned to ship weapons and ammunition from the US to a school in Donegal, the Omagh civil court case heard today.

My Chemical Romance scrapped another show on their US tour with Muse last night when a festival appearance on Saturday left sick band and crew members feeling even worse.

A woman whose bizarre behaviour aboard a London-to-Washington flight provoked a massive security scare will be held indefinitely at a residential mental health facility in New Hampshire, a federal judge ruled today.

English princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are reportedly set to hit Manhattan on work-experience placements with their mother.

Stanley Kunitz, a former US poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner whose expressive verse, social commitment and generosity to young writers spanned three-quarters of a century, has died. He was 100.

A judge in Worcester, Massachusetts, today ruled that an American linked romantically to Princess Beatrice violated his probation when he went on a European ski trip.

A US inmate who strangled a convicted child molester priest behind bars said tonight that he decided to kill him after the clergyman brushed off criticism that he had “destroyed all kinds of lives.”

Christina Aguilera is inviting fans who bought VIP ticket packages to her cancelled summer tour to attend a hearing on the matter.

A woman who has been the subject of rumours linking her to Senator John Kerry denied tonight that she ever had an affair with the Democratic presidential candidate.

The United States can expect a scientific exodus to Britain if Congress succeeds in criminalising ‘‘therapeutic’’ human cloning for medical purposes, biotechnology executives say.