Three years of carnage has turned the city mentioned by Shakespeare in Macbeth into a Stalingrad, writes JAMES HARKIN

In a market flooded with millions of apps, Galway-based company Element Software is launching on the international market technology which has been designed to significantly help brands retain their app users.

James Harkin is one of the few non-Syrians to get into Homs, the epicentre of the Syrian uprising, and has witnessed the terror and the violence of the military lockdown