A Yale graduate and a rugby team vice-captain have each been fined €200 after they sat each other’s Leaving Certificate physics exam.

A YALE University student and a former classmate are to face trial for allegedly sitting each other’s physics Leaving Certificate exams at a Dublin school three years ago.

An area around Buckingham Palace has now been re-opened following a bomb threat by dissidents republicans in London.

A 13-year-old girl was raped in a car park after she accepted a lift from a man as she walked along a street, police in Britain said.