THE United Nations Human Rights Council should accept responsibility, on behalf of the world forum, for the famine spreading through eastern Africa, and should call for member countries’ cooperation to overcome the desperate food crisis there, experts said.

Seven people were killed when a suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked Somalia's main airport today.

Five Irish soldiers will be hand-picked in the coming weeks to train up troops for reputedly the most dangerous country in the world, it was revealed today.