Six people including a pastor have been killed in an attack on a Christian church in northern Burkina Faso.

WHEN Irish soldiers arrived in troubled Mali last week as part of an EU training force, they will have encountered a country where the security situation remains tense and a year-long conflict has had a catastrophic humanitarian impact on the population.

As his new exhibition opens in Dublin, Sebastião Salgado tells Pádraic Killeen why he has greater hope for the environment