A father drowned his 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in an apparent murder-suicide as his marriage broke down, detectives believe.

This beautiful part of West Cork can rarely have looked as desolate as it did yesterday — a grey and cold sky draped over the scene of an almost unimaginable tragedy.

A taxi driver assaulted a British flight attendant while she was on her way back from a Bangkok pub early today, police said.