Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has played a pivotal role in the quest for global justice, writes TP O’Mahony.

HUNDREDS of listeners have contacted BBC Radio 4 after newsreader Charlotte Green dissolved into a fit of the giggles while reading a bulletin yesterday.

ABBY MANN, writer of socially-conscious scripts for movies and television and winner of the 1961 Academy Award for adapted screenplay for Judgment at Nuremberg, has died aged 80. The cause of death was not given.