Laws that target sex buyers and pimps can curb human trafficking and prostitution, writes Denise Charlton.

Our newly-elected councillors and MEPs have a duty to show political leadership on the issue of human trafficking for sexual exploitation which has brought organised crime to communities across Ireland.

The Government is coming under increasing pressure to punish those who buy sex and to move away from the current emphasis on prosecuting prostitutes.

France’s main pilots’ union and unions at Air France have called for a strike.

The leader of the International Monetary Fund tipped as a candidate for the French presidency was taken off a plane moments before take-off last night and questioned by police over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid.

Five African heads of state and thousands of mourners paid their last respects to Senegal’s founding president, Leopold Sedar Senghor, who was buried today.