A Co Cork-based kayaker has completed a gruelling 2,500km voyage during which he had to dodge supertankers and all the elements could throw at him and his flimsy craft.

For a man not renowned as having ‘sea legs’, it would be a lot easier to book a flight to take a trip from Cork to his home town in north Germany.

CHEF JAMIE Oliver, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, concrete sewer pipes, and fresh horse manure — what binds them? Wood-fired pizza ovens.

An explosion inside the headquarters of the paramilitary police command in a western Indonesian city killed four people, including two officers, today and injured several others.

An explosion today at the headquarters of the bomb squad in the Indonesian city of Medan left several officers badly injured.