Strikes have been launched by US forces on three alleged drug smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean, killing 11 people.

Barack Obama has paid a warm tribute to Jesse Jackson’s “lifetime of service” – after Donald Trump took a swipe at him in his own eulogy.

Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf has been arrested after allegedly assaulting two men in New Orleans amid Mardi Gras celebrations, police say.

An Irishman who has been held in a US immigration facility for five months has received a 10-day reprieve on his potential deportation.

“Keep hope alive”. This was Jesse Jackson’s message, delivered at the end of his famous 1988 speech at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, his second campaign for the presidential nomination.