IT IS amazing to see because it feels so clearly out of place, but in some spots along Antarctica’s coast you can actually find hints of grass and other plant life — green evidence that in parts of the long-frozen continent the ice is thinning, and fast.

A man who hacked into Sarah Palin’s email during the 2008 US presidential campaign was sentenced today to a year and a day, with the judge recommending a halfway house instead of prison.

A FORMER college student charged with hacking Sarah Palin’s email account fears some jurors in heavily Republican East Tennessee could be dazzled when the conservative star testifies.

Pernod Ricard, the French drinks giant that owns the Midleton Jameson distillery, has sold off its Bushmills whiskey brand to Diageo for €298m.