Climate change caused by the world's richest countries will lead to hundreds of millions of deaths in Africa by 2100. Chris Connolly reports

On 26 May of last year gardaí killed Eric Hopkins, a 24-year-old man from Summerhill, Dublin, father of a child. Eric Hopkins was one of three robbers who entered the post office in Lusk that morning. One of his accomplices, Colm Griffin, was armed and he too was shot dead.

Brian Rossiter, a 14 year old Clonmel boy, was found in a coma after a night in Garda custody. He died three days later, never having recovered consciousness. At present an inquiry is underway into the circumstances of his detention and death.

Sixty minutes into the game Biarritz were just a point behind. They had dominated the previous 15 minutes in possession ...

Twenty-one Sundays into 2006, the Sunday Independent has published eight front page lead stories that were bogus. By Vincent Browne

At a press conference with John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern stumbled through a justification for the use of Shannon by American military forces in its conduct of the occupation of Iraq. He said this was authorised by UN Security Council resolutions. He had a point.

The Da Vinci Code is right in according the Roman emperor Constantine a central role in determining the history and nature of Christianity. Constantine did not just ordain the toleration of Christianity and convey to the young religion the charisma of the Roman Empire.

Crucially, he was instrumental in establishing the doctrine of the divinity of Christ as the central core of Christianity.

In a year's time the Irish electorate will be invited to sign up to one of a few packages of parties, candidates and policies for the following five years. This is called "democracy", permitting the people to determine their future and the course of their country in a process largely devoid of meaning.

Observations by Dr Richard Kuprewicz on the Advantica review into the proposed Corrib gas pipeline through Rossport, which was released by the Department of Communications, the Marine and Natural Resources on 3 May, 2006. Dr Kuprewicz was the author of the Accufacts report, published by the Centre for Public Inquiry in November 2005.

Michael McDowell has promised legislation to reform the libel laws since he first became Attorney General seven years ago. In spite of these serial promises, nothing has emerged so far. One of the obvious reform of the libel laws is to remove the liability of printers and distributors from libel suits. At present the common laws exempts distributors where the distributor had no way of knowing the publication they are distributing carried a libel. There is no such exemption for printers.