Two more bodies have been recovered in the wake of the Texas fertiliser plant explosion, bring the death toll from the blast to 14.

THIEVES broke into the Sao Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil yesterday morning and stole paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari, police said.

North South co-operation cannot continue to be held hostage to the political stalemate in Northern Ireland, SDLP leader Mark Durkan said today.