A masked prisoner dressed as a woman tried to break out of a Brazilian jail in a surreal act of derring-do, only to be thwarted on the cusp of freedom by prison officers.
A small number of cattle importers and farmers risk introducing the animal disease Bluetongue into the national herd by continuing to purchase and ship cattle from continental Europe during the summer, the Department of Agriculture has claimed.
Two more victims of the mass shooting at a crowded Walmart in El Paso died yesterday in hospital, raising the death toll for the attack to 22, and 31 in total for the weekend of gun carnage.
Broken weather conditions have delayed progress in the harvest over the bank holiday weekend, but cutting is continuing between showers, and yields generally remain strong.
A six-year-old boy was in "critical but stable" condition after he was reportedly thrown from the 10th floor of London's Tate Modern art gallery.
There is growing unease among tillage farmers that the tonnage of malting barley processed by Boortmalt in Athy this harvest could be slashed following a major incident at the Kildare site.
Farmers from the Beef Plan Movement are picketing outside over 20 meat factories today as their protest enters a second week.
