The Irish Examiner is to sponsor this year’s Cork City Marathon, which will attract 9,000 runners from all around the world for an event which is proven to be a major boost to charities.

THOUSANDS of people desperate to adopt a child are being urged to lobby their MEPs to force Romania to relax a blanket ban on foreign adoptions.

THE teenage groom of a 12-year-old girl forced into a gypsy marriage in Romania is facing arrest.

HUMAN rights activists and Romanians yesterday condemned the arranged marriage of a 12-year-old Gypsy girl, saying it was illegal and a violation of human rights.

Jeffrey Archer could face a police investigation into claims that millions of pounds of charity money raised for Kurdish refugees was stolen, it was disclosed today.