The grand military parade that US president Donald Trump wanted for years barrelled down Constitution Avenue in Washington on Saturday with tanks, troops and a 21-gun salute, playing out against nationwide protests by those who decried him as a dictator and would-be king.

Authorities have started handing over remains of the victims of one of India&s worst aviation disasters, days after the Air India flight crashed and killed at least 270 people, officials said yesterday.

Today is Bloomsday & and an exclusive picture released to the Irish ­Independent echoes the main theme of James Joyce&s Ulysses, acclaimed as the greatest ­novel of the 20th century.

So it&s official: Washington is pulling the plug on military aid to Ukraine. At Congressional hearings last week US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth confirmed the Trump administration has a &very different view& of the war in Ukraine to that of Joe Biden&s - and insisted that a &negotiated peaceful settlement is in the best interest of both parties and our nation&s interests&.