A man has been arrested by British counter-terror police at Stansted Airport on suspicion he planned on travelling to Syria.

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We are all framed by our past but our destiny and final legacy do not need to be defined by it. That is perhaps the key lesson for a troubled world from the life and times of Martin McGuinness and Abdelhamid Abaaoud, suggests Irish Examiner digital editor, Dolan O'Hagan.

After a number of valuable sulky race horses perished in a stable fire, a major drug dealer decided to exact revenge on the local community in East Limerick.

Saudi Arabia yesterday identified the suicide bomber who struck outside the US consulate in Jiddah as a Pakistani resident of the kingdom who arrived 12 years ago to work as a driver.

It’s unlikely that Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people in a nightclub at the weekend, was directly linked to IS. Lack of gun control and mental illness may be factors, says Peter Apps

A third person has been arrested by police investigating the cyber attack on telecoms firm TalkTalk.

Fifteen British people have been confirmed dead in the Tunisia attack, with a warning that the toll could rise.

Medical officials in Gaza City say an Israeli air strike has killed four people who were attending a funeral.

China has suffered another multiple stabbing attack, with seven people reported killed in a village in a central province.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has requested the recall of the devolved Assembly after claiming a government deal that saw IRA terror suspects assured they would not be prosecuted also involved the granting of royal pardons.

A Co Waterford woman wanted in the UK for allegedly attacking a man with a hammer has appeared in the High Court on foot of a European Arrest Warrant.

US secretary of state John Kerry has arrived in Geneva to test the seriousness of a Russian proposal to secure Syria’s chemical weapons.

The supreme leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested, dealing a serious blow to the group as it tries to maintain street protests over the removal of president Mohammed Morsi.

Police in Britain have arrested three more people in connection with the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich earlier this week.

Nurit Tinari-Modai of the Israeli embassy (Letters Sep 8) takes your correspondent Dan Buckley to task for suggesting that Israel’s 1967 attack on its Arab neighbours was a bid to grab land and resources.

An off-duty soldier’s vigilance saved his life when he spotted a bomb underneath the driver’s seat inside his car in Belfast.

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A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a serious assault in Limerick overnight which has left a man fighting for his life in hospital.

A mobile speed van has been completely destroyed in an arson attack in Dundalk, Co Louth this morning.

OPENING Mideast peace talks under the shadow of fresh violence, US President Barack Obama vowed yesterday not to allow “extremists and rejectionists” to undercut long-stalled negotiations on creating a sovereign Palestinian state beside a secure Israel.

A young Finglas man who armed himself with a sawn-off shotgun to protect his family after an arson attack near his home has been given a four-year sentence with the last two years suspended.

Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt an attack on America in the next three to six months, intelligence chiefs told the US Congress.

AMERICAN tourists are changing their holiday plans and coming to Ireland instead of Scotland in protest at the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

Local youths threw bottles at residents in south Belfast last night who had gathered to protest against attacks on immigrant families in the area.

A man arrested in connection with a grenade attack on two Northern Ireland policemen was tonight released without charge.

Thousands attended the burials today of the two Israeli soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas.

Two arson attacks on the same house within hours were being investigated by police today.

GARDAÍ launched two major investigations yesterday after a spate of arson attacks in Cork city at the weekend.

A Moroccan suspected of being the man who claimed responsibility for the 2004 Madrid terror bombings refused to answer prosecution questions today.

Israeli missiles struck Lebanon from north to south and in the Bekaa Valley near Syria, killing 35 people, including a family who had come from Canada to visit their home village.

A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up at a fast food restaurant in a bustling commercial area of Tel Aviv during the Jewish holiday of Passover yesterday, killing himself and nine people and wounding dozens in the deadliest Palestinian attack in more than a year.

ON April 27, 1916, three days after Patrick Pearse stepped onto the portico of the General Post Office in Dublin to proclaim the new Irish Republic, 2,128 men of the 16th (Irish) Division suffered horrifically from a German gas attack.

Relatives of the victims of the Omagh bombing have expressed outrage at the revelation that the British spy agency MI5 had been warned of a possible attack in the town, but failed to tell the RUC.

Psychiatrists have concluded a former cult leader sentenced to die for the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground rail system is mentally fit to stand trial if his appeal goes ahead, a court official said today.

An alleged attack at a Massachusetts gay bar, the killing of an Arkansas officer and the killing of a mother of three – Jacob Robida left a streak of unexplained violence that ended in a fatal shootout with authorities.

A teenager shot in the head beside her dying friend Mary-Ann Leneghan told a British court today that she had been the victim of a potentially fatal arson attack just a short time beforehand.

Firefighters exhausted from dealing with loyalist rioting in Belfast today stood in silent tribute to 9/11 terrorist attack victims in New York.

AT least 17 Iraqis were killed yesterday in a series of explosions that targeted police and US forces.

Five people escaped injury after two houses were extensively damaged in an arson attack early today.

A suicide bomber killed 13 people in an attack today next to the heavily fortified area in central Baghdad housing the interim government and US embassy, while eight US Marines died in combat in western Iraq.

The younger brother of terror suspect Hambali has been jailed for four years on charges of helping to finance last year’s bombing of the Marriott hotel in Jakarta.

THIRTEEN Palestinians and three Israelis were killed yesterday in fierce gunbattles in the northern Gaza Strip after a wave of Israeli air strikes, the worst fighting in the impoverished area in months.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims condemned as “lenient” the sentence given today to one of the men suspected of being responsible for the atrocity.