The world’s second largest tobacco group today said it sold fewer cigarettes as smokers cut back their consumption in the economic downturn.

THE judges of a spoof art competition yesterday threatened to disqualify an entry they suspect was submitted by guerrilla artist Banksy – for being “too good”.

AUSTRALIA’S giant prehistoric animals, including 10-foot-tall kangaroos and wombat-like creatures as big as rhinoceroses, were likely wiped out by aboriginal settlers, not climate change, a researcher said yesterday.

KEEPING a close eye on developments at the recent Open Championship at Muirfield was Pat Lyons, the Irish international from Cork Golf Club.