USA: A 24-year-old man who a month after being released from prison for a bank robbery held up the same bank and teller has been sentenced to more than 10 years behind bars.

Heavy fighting broke out near the border with Liberia between forces backing the political rivals who both claim to be Ivory Coast’s president, panicking tens of thousands of refugees who already had fled the violence.

BRITISH farmer Tony Martin was last night enjoying his first taste of freedom for nearly four years and looking forward to pocketing an estimated 140,000 after selling his story.