Seven Days

A glance at the week that was

We now know

Lenny Henry and Dawn French have separated after 25 years of marriage

Scientists have found a two-metre-long tree-climbing lizard in the Philippines

In South Africa, scientists have found the remains of a previously undiscovered early human species

Dalkey rig-out

Next time you’re driving along the Dalkey coastline, imagine a giant oil rig perched at the island. According to Irish oil and gas company Providence Resources, there is oil in the vicinity – perhaps as much as 800 million barrels – and they’re going to try and figure out how to get at it. It’s not as if that stretch of the coast isn’t moneyed enough as it is, although many southsiders might object to a massive drilling operation. Northsiders, though, will undoubtedly welcome it. All in the national interest, of course.

'The full magnitude of it, it's pretty brutal'

Tiger Woods at a press conference, not yet playing down his actions

Dead weight

Two German women were arrested at Liverpool’s John Lennon airport for trying to smuggle a corpse on to a plane. The body was that of 91-year-old Curt “Willi” Jarant, and the women were his wife Gitta Jarant (66) and stepdaughter Anke Anusic (41). They put him in a wheelchair, put sunglasses on him and, when anyone asked, said he was just asleep. They still claim they didn’t know he was dead: “He was not dead. He was pale, but he was not dead. He was like this for months,” insisted Anusic. “We don’t know how they can charge us with things we didn’t do.”

The numbers

€20Ryanair's charge for checked-in baggage during July and August – a €5 increase

0The number of English clubs in the Champions League semi-finals. The worst performance since 2003

14The hours it took to separate conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf, using 30 doctors, at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital