IN a separate response on the pensions market in Ireland, the industry in a joint statement warned that some of the proposed pension policy changes, if introduced, would “impoverish” the middle classes.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that North Korea had “no friends left” to defend it from nuclear sanctions, triggering vitriolic defiance from the Stalinist regime.

FARMERS can help tackle global warming by doing everything from supplying wool for home insulation and growing energy crops to making breeze blocks out of hemp or producing biomass for heat and power, British Tory leader David Cameron said yesterday.