MANY US cities have a much better economic outlook than struggling Detroit, but the Motor City’s bankruptcy filing should still set off alarm bells elsewhere as the cost of paying retirement benefits swells.

THE question over whether or not the Colombia Three should be extradited continues to exercise minds. It could set a dangerous precedent.

DYLAN Benwell, the Cork-born youngster at the centre of an international tug of love, returned to the home of his mother in the US yesterday, over three months after his grandparents were accused of kidnapping him.