The wet weather woes continue in the west. We have had a much higher than average rainfall since August - this is having an effect as it is making some jobs much more difficult to do.
Stiff competition between Northern Irish factories and those in the South has pushed pig prices to 188-190c/kg this week.
Tens of thousands of Catalans rallied in support of Spanish unity in a Barcelona counter-demonstration yesterday following another night of violence between police and separatist protesters.
Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters, many wearing banned face masks, who had converged on the Kowloon harbour-front tourist district yesterday to denounce perceived police brutality over months of unrest.
The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) made sweeping gains in regional elections yesterday, inflicting heavy losses on Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU).
An album of lost recordings made by Doris Day in the 1940s has been revived by a man who she babysat for as a budding star.
The eight American stealth helicopters, carrying Delta Force and Navy Seals, came in fast and low over the olive trees in Barisha, a village of a few thousand people in Idlib province near the Turkish border.
