A MILLIONAIRE with a background in global travel found a second home on Cork’s Shandon Street as an undercover benefactor.

NO man is an island – but the clued-in and fascinating Nadim Sadek has gently re-created one for himself and his family in Mayo’s Clew Bay.

The deputy governor of Helmand province and five other people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan today, officials said.

A suicide bomber struck outside the home of a southern Afghan provincial governor today, killing or wounding 18 people, officials said.

Fighting raged today between rival Afghan warlords - both of them officials in the interim government.