It’s ‘all picture, no sound’ for one Co Clare man who shares his home with his separated wife but has no access to the house TV.

A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis this week has told the BBC that paedophilia is an illness and not a crime.

As the celebrations to mark the election of Francis as pope continue, the millions upon millions of Catholics who hope his pontificate might lead to a renewal of their Church must despair at the remarks of the Catholic Archbishop of Durban, Wilfrid Fox Napier, who said on BBC radio last week that paedophilia is a psychological illness and not “a criminal condition”.

A rare all-white killer whale has been spotted by ocean scientists off Alaska.