Illinois

A US escape artist has parachuted safely to the ground after freeing himself from handcuffs and a locked coffin while it was falling at 209km/h from 4(...)

The New York Times Co has agreed to sell the Boston Globe to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team for $70 million in cash, a small (...)

It was the beginning of summer and I had just fled my first stay in Ireland – wheelbarrowing concrete mix, frothing cappuccinos – back to the rural Mi(...)

US president Barack Obama has berated Republicans for their inaction on the economy, saying that reversing the growing inequality between the rich and(...)

The Sixth Sense was haunted by restless spirits; extraterrestrials plagued the earth throughout Signs; mutated beasts stomp their way across the new W(...)

Two near certainties about university life: your bike will get stolen at least once and you will get repeatedly drunk during your time there. It’s the(...)

Nine people were killed in tornadoes that swept through central Oklahoma, part of a storm system that caused widespread flooding in Oklahoma City and (...)

A man whose family was due to be evicted from their US home struck lucky this week when he claimed a $4.85 million (€3.76 million) winning lottery (...)

Where better to launch a bid for the State’s lottery business than from inside its Dublin headquarters? Italian-owned gaming giant Gtech (...)

Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the US could be excluded from becoming US citizens under proposals being worked(...)