ARTIST Stephen Brandes’ monumental piece, ‘April 22nd — From the Last Travelogue of Albert Sitzfleisch’, dominates the foyer of the Royal Hibernian Academy. His show, part of the RHA’s autumn programme, is satiric, provocative, charming and unsettling.

The German cannibal who confessed to killing a man and eating his flesh is incapable of showing “warm and tender feelings” toward other people, but is not mentally ill, a court heard today.

A German engineer who became dinner for an Internet cannibal never expressed any desire to die, his former partner told a murder trial today.