The latest Star Wars movie could get a working subtitle, ‘War of the Birds’, as concern grows about the impact of filming on wildlife on Skellig Michael.

French and Malian troops retook control of Timbuktu, a Unesco World Heritage site, yesterday after Islamist rebel occupiers fled the ancient Sahara trading town and torched several buildings, including a priceless manuscript library.

THE UN cultural watchdog updated its name for the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland yesterday to reflect its German Nazi role.