SHE was known for her smile. But friends and colleagues of Celia Ferrer de Jesus, who was tragically drowned when her basement flat was flooded, united in tears at her funeral yesterday.

THE body of the Filipino woman who drowned when her basement flat was submerged during last week’s flooding in Dublin will be flown home tomorrow.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a hospice nurse who died when her basement flatflooded.

ANYONE who thinks they’ve had a tough life should take time out to read up on Angel Cabrera.

Three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan are in the hands of criminals, not the Taliban-linked militants who have threatened to kill them, an Afghan official said today.