Ahead of his first visit to Ireland next month for the Ballymaloe Litfest, René Redzepi talks to Joe McNamee about his culinary revolution.

It wasn’t cooking in one of the finest Michelin-starred restaurants in London, and afterwards in Stockholm — challenges posed in the MasterChef Ireland final — that Tamarin Blackmur found most challenging.

A teenager with a pistol who seized four youngsters at a school in south west Germany and demanded a one million euro ransom surrendered after freeing the hostages unharmed, police said.

A teenage gunman has released two of the four youngsters he took hostage today at a school in south-western Germany, police said.

Armed police surrounded a school today in southwest Germany where a gunman holding four young students hostage demanded a ransom of €1m.