A private collection of 177 paintings and drawings by Sean O’Sullivan RHA (1906-1964) comes under the hammer at James Adam in Dublin next Wednesday at 6pm It was put together over a period of 50 years by a single Irish collector.

Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue will be closed indefinitely because of damage to access roads from heavy rains, authorities said.

Brazil’s best-known monument, the Christ the Redeemer statue, overlooking Rio, is at the centre of a legal dispute over who owns the rights to its image on tens of thousands of souvenirs.