Film producer David Puttnam yesterday weighed in behind an exuberant Christmas song performed by West Cork schoolboys and children from a remote African tribe.

Poaching is inflicting unsustainable losses on African elephants, with more than 33,600 animals killed each year between 2010 and 2012, a study has shown.

Twelve police officers were killed when they were ambushed while pursuing men who had stolen cattle. according to a Kenyan official.

TWO South African crew members and 12 US tourists were killed in a plane crash on Mount Kenya on Saturday evening.