Experts are examining a recorded message said to have been from hostage Kenji Goto, extending the deadline for Jordan's prisoner-swap release of an Iraqi would-be suicide bomber linked to al Qaida.

ANY suggestion, as was made in a recent Irish Examiner editorial, that international support for Israel’s existence and right to defend itself “feeds extremism” and, in particular, the extremism that led to the 9/11 attacks is based on a false premise.