Up to 1,000 protesters will converge on Cork City next week as part of the bitter public opposition to the Government’s proposals to regulate septic tanks.

REBELS lifted their siege of Liberia’s war-torn capital Monrovia yesterday after scores of US troops were flown into the battered city.

US troops in jungle camouflage landed at Liberia’s main airport today on a mission to help bring aid to civilians battered by a brutal civil war.