The announcement by Minister for Sport Patrick O’Donovan yesterday that sports bodies will have State funding cut unless at least 30% of their board members are female was broadly welcomed yesterday.

A tourist and her baby were trampled to death by a rampaging elephant in Kenya.

MOURNERS at the funeral of Vicky Hamilton yesterday were told the schoolgirl’s family had been “robbed” of seeing her grow up.

A woman at a roadblock in southern Israel set herself on fire and was taken to a hospital in a serious condition, police said.

A small heap of paper that survived the disintegration of doomed space shuttle Columbia, a 38-mile fall to Earth and two months of exposure to rain and sun in a Texas field, has been painstakingly restored by forensic scientists, yielding the flight diary and notes of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon.