JUST one in 200 people working in the childcare sector in Ireland are men, a conference heard yesterday.

Security concerns again plagued tsunami relief efforts, as rebels in Indonesia’s Aceh province accused government troops of ditching an informal truce.

Iraq’s United Nations ambassador sent a defiant message to George Bush after the US president urged world leaders to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq - or stand aside as the United States acted.