To historian Brenda Stevenson, a scholar on American slavery, 12 Years a Slave is a masterful cinematic work that achieves more than any other film on slavery, so worthy that she plans to screen it in classes at her university, UCLA.

A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy from Co Derry has drowned at his family’s holiday villa on Portugal’s Algarve coast.

The death of a six-year-old twin boy on a family holiday in Portugal sent shockwaves through his local community today.