MARGARET Atwood, perhaps Canada’s pre-eminent novelist, will tomorrow attend Dún Laoghaire’s Mountains to Sea book festival. Atwood lived in West Cork for four months, with her partner, Graeme Gibson, also a Canadian writer, in 1996.

Ten Albanians suspected of running a massive burglary and organised crime ring in Munster and south Leinster were arrested today.

An Australian has won the annual race up the Empire State Building which became New York's tallest skyscraper following the attacks on the World Trade Centre.