The US Supreme Court yesterday allowed Barclays to claim about $4bn (€3.6bn) of disputed assets as part of its hurried purchase of much of Lehman Brothers Holdings’ brokerage unit at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.

American singer Rhiannon Giddens will perform work by three African-American composers at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

ANTHONY GIDDENS’ The Politics of Climate Change is about “nightmares, catastrophes and dreams”.