A man with 424 previous convictions was ordered by a judge to go back and mop the cell he was staying in after he had urinated in it.

Cork’s Simon Community says there is a growing need for increased services for homeless people in the city.

USA: The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles says a boy who dresses as a girl may not have his driver’s licence photo retaken wearing makeup.

Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric in their increasingly heated presidential primary battle.