US envoy's motorcade kills child in Cameroon
A diplomatic convoy in Cameroon carrying the visiting US ambassador to the United Nations has accidentally struck and killed a young boy.
Samantha Power is in Cameroon with officials from USAID, the Pentagon and the UN as part of Washington's effort to support local authorities in their fight against the extremist group Boko Haram.
Ms Power said she later visited the boy's family with UN, US and Cameroonian officials "to offer our profound condolences and to express our grief and heartbreak over what the family is going through".
Five members of family guilty of money laundering
Five members of the same family have pleaded guilty at the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork to charges of money laundering.
The charges were brought against 51-year old Helen Heaphy of Kerryhall Road, Cork, and four of her adult children: Jonathan Heaphy, 34; Daniel Heaphy, 20; Jessica Heaphy, 20; and Nicole Heaphy.
The sums involved range from €200 to almost €30,000.
All five were released on bail and are due to be sentenced on 9 May.
Tweeting at windmills
QUIJOTE NEWS: Entramos en cuenta atrás. Ahora me parece que esto corre demasiado. pic.twitter.com/sA007A1QKb
— QuijoteEn17000Tuits (@elquijote1605) April 18, 2016
A retired computer engineer is marking the fourth centenary of the death of Spain's revered author Miguel de Cervantes by publishing his best-known novel "Don Quixote" online - one tweet at a time.
Barcelona-based Diego Buendia, 55, told AFP he got the idea in August 2004 "while joking how great it would be to have the classics published on Twitter."
Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters and Buendia used an algorithm to divide the novel about a delusional wanna-be knight into a total of 17,000 tweets.
He then set up Twitter account @elquijote1605 that posts 28 fragments of the novel every day, decorated with a picture of white-washed windmills, a nod to the best-known episode of the book when Don Quixote fights windmills he imagines are giants.
The account has over 7,500 followers, including Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
