The Emergency Manager for Irish aid agency Trócaire has said the security situation in Pakistan is preventing aid from getting to people who need it.

Five men are still being questioned about the abduction of a bank official and his wife and the robbery of €300,000 in Dublin last week.

A Government appointed committee is considering a ban on the sponsorship of sports events by drinks companies.

A landslide buried up to 100 people in Guatemala trying to dig out a bus caught in deep mud as torrential rains battered the country.