It was 53 years ago, but Cliff Scott remembers it like it was yesterday. He was just a boy, and the young, dashing US senator whom everybody called Ja(...)

Brazil experienced its biggest wave of protests in more than two decades as up to a quarter of a million people took to the streets of a dozen cities (...)

Last week the International Monetary Fund, whose normal role is that of stern disciplinarian to spendthrift governments, gave the United States some u(...)

Whistleblower Edward Snowden chose a Hong Kong hotel room as a hiding place because he believes he is unlikely to be extradited from there to the US, (...)

A US intelligence agency has requested a criminal investigation into the leak of highly classified information about secret surveillance programs r(...)

The Obama administration has acknowledged that it is collecting a massive amount of telephone records from at least one carrier, reopening the debate (...)

There has been confirmation from Croke Park of the exact details of the 2013 All-Ireland football qualifier series, the draw for the first round takin(...)

Former Republican presidential candidate and Tea Party star Michele Bachmann has said that she will not seek a fifth term in Congress next year, endin(...)

US president Barack Obama has offered his most vigorous public defence of drone strikes, describing them as legal, effective and necessary. (...)

The US government has formally acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four Americans, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, wh(...)