I Was A Boy in Belsen, Tomi Reichental

A 17-year-old Slovakian footballer has been blocked by FIFA from playing for Killarney Celtic in Kerry.

An investigation was ongoing today into an explosives find in Dublin yesterday that has been traced back to the Slovak authorities.

WORLD markets estimate there is a one in four chance Ireland will go bankrupt over the next five years, pushing the cost of insuring government debt of e51.16 billion to e1.66bn a year.

Slovakia has protested to the European Commission over a 25% cut in the country’s permitted carbon dioxide limits, the country’s justice minister said.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was today expected in Bratislava to meet his Slovak counterpart Mikulas Dzurinda for talks that should focus mostly on issues related to the European Union.

An 86-year-old former commander of a Nazi unit that captured a group of British and US officers, who were then executed in a concentration camp, has been been arrested at his home in Munich.