Irish efforts to evacuate citizens from Libya have been fiercely criticised for a second day after a teacher escaped a frightening 26-hour wait at Tripoli airport.

NORTH KOREA’s Kim Jong Il has anointed his 26-year-old son – said to be competitive, proficient in English and a heavy drinker – as the next leader of the communist state, it emerged yesterday.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Il has officially named his heavy-drinking, English-speaking 26-year-old son as the next leader.