Luxury stores on Dublin’s Grafton street are paying the fifth dearest retail rents in the world, a survey showed today.

Tokyo police are to seek an international arrest warrant for a British woman and three Serbs suspected of pulling off Japan’s biggest robbery.

Crown Princess Masako gave birth today to a baby girl and, as Japan celebrated, court messengers placed by its pillow the sword and deep purple robes of silk that are the symbols of its lofty position.