The usually dignified US senate could see rising tensions along party lines as Donald Trump’s impeachment begins.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the Government is “very much concerned” about any escalation of tensions in the Middle East, but stopped short of condemning the US attack on Iran.

New low-cost flights make it possible to explore this iconic American city in a few days, says Ryan Hooper.

A State Department foreign service officer will tell impeachment investigators former national security adviser John Bolton cautioned him that Rudy Giuliani “was a key voice with the president on Ukraine”, which could complicate US goals in the Eastern European country.

Irish food and drink exporters will pay €91m more a year in taxes with new tariffs on EU goods entering the United States.

US vice president Mike Pence has said the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria.

The holiday hotspots now flying firmly over the radar.

Turkey’s military will “shortly” cross into Syria together with allied Syrian rebel forces after President Donald Trump announced US troops would withdraw from the area.

North Korea has praised Donald Trump for saying Washington may pursue an unspecified “new method” in nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang.

A spokesman for China’s ceremonial legislature has condemned US politicians’ support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement as “a gross violation of the spirit of the rule of law”.

Woodstock 50 has been called off. It’s for the best, says Suzanne Harrington — no one can ever match the original

Lassi Lappalainen and Orji Okwonkwo both scored twice as the Montreal Impact ended a four-game losing run with a 4-0 win over the MLS-leading Philadelphia Union.

Heber scored his sixth goal in five games as New York City FC beat 10-man Sporting Kansas City 3-1 on Friday night.

Keith Byrne travelled to the US in 2007 on a visa-waiver programme but overstayed his visa, and he subsequently set up his own business in Philadelphia, married an American woman and started a family.

The Cork man who faced deportation from the US has been reunited with his family.

Thousands of fans have welcomed the World Cup-winning US women’s soccer team in New York.

"And that’s the tea."

In the UK, the game was the most-watched TV programme of the year so far on all British channels.

The United States are through to the semi-finals of the Women's World Cup.

In a midsummer week that may culminate when — if — the sinister buffoon Boris Johnson becomes the 14th British prime minister of Queen Elizabeth’s near seven-decade reign, it is not hard to argue that politics have failed.

The US military has released a video it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz.

Irish businesses have been urged to invest in the US market, with states in the American heartland seen as ripe for growth.

What needs to be avoided is the traditional fawning by Irish politicians of US presidents, says Daniel McConnell.

The US embassy in Iraq said the state department has ordered all non-essential, non-emergency government staff to leave the country right away amid escalating tensions with Iran.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán visits the White House today, but Donald Trump will try to cut an arms deal with him, not promote democracy, say Anne-Marie Slaughter and Melissa Hooper.

Toyota and Honda forecast profit and sales short of analysts’ estimates as a trade spat between the US and China threatens global car sales already sputtering from weaker demand.

The next Cold War against China will not be won by force of weaponry as was the case against the USSR, but rather through expensive economic strategies, writes Minxin Pei.