Copies of Margaret Atwood's closely guarded follow-up to 'The Handmaid's Tale' were accidentally delivered to US readers early, breaking a strict embargo.
Seated next to the Agriculture Minister, the doyenne of rural Ireland Anna May McHugh took the opportunity to express her own concerns about the beef farmers' situation.
French senators were stunned to find a bust of Hitler and a Nazi flag were being kept in the senate and desks bearing the eagle emblem of the Third Reich were only removed recently.
Jeffrey Epstein's friends face an anxious wait after a judge in New York yesterday laid out a schedule for releasing sealed court documents believed to contain the names of 1,000 people.
The Iran nuclear deal frayed further yesterday when President Hassan Rouhani said his country was unlikely to reach a much-anticipated agreement with Europe this week and would unveil further plans to boost its atomic activities.
A beef support package announced to much fanfare by the Government before the local and European elections has been massively under-subscribed.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees Mogg is one of the most boisterous opponents of the backstop - but his late father may have taken a different view.