Connacht have announced the signing of lock Aly Muldowney on a three-year contract from Aviva Premiership club Exeter.

Australia’s most prominent Islamic cleric, widely condemned for suggesting that women who don’t wear head scarves invite rape, implied today he would not resign as long as the White House continues to influence the world.

A TROPICAL cyclone battering southern Mozambique has killed 11 people and severed coastal roads in the storm-weary African country, officials said yesterday.