There was delight yesterday at a small West Cork school which will keep its three classroom teachers next September after a change in Government policy.

ILLEGAL waste lagoons which the European Court ordered closed 27 months ago are still in operation.

A lorry driver carrying three guns stormed an Amish school and opened fire on a dozen girls, killing at least three people before committing suicide.

Forensic workers and body-sniffing dogs searched New Orleans in earnest for corpses as crews cleared away mounds of rubbish and debris left behind by residents fleeing Hurricane Katrina.