Jean Todt has been re-elected as president of the FIA at the federation’s Annual General Assembly in Paris this morning.

Ireland will help the United Nations to play a stronger role in confronting global challenges, Foreign Affairs Minster Micheal Martin said in a major speech to the international body in New York.

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was stepping on to the global stage today at the start of a week-long United Nations debate on international terrorism, which will hear the views of more than 150 countries.