A Nato air strike has killed 12 rebels in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, a doctor says.

Israeli military officials have denied Palestinian reports of an air strike and artillery fire near Gaza City this morning in which Palestinians said three people were killed.

The DUP’s William Hay yesterday created electoral history when he became the first member of his party to top the poll in the nationalist dominated Foyle constituency.

A SENIOR GAA official in the North was adamant yesterday that a controversial Maze Prison hunger strike commemoration in Casement Park in Belfast was not political.

The British government was told to hang its head in shame tonight after Irish republicans held a commemoration at the former Maze Prison to 10 IRA and INLA prisoners who died on hunger strike.

Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Italy’s Fascist dictator, started a hunger strike today in protest at a court decision blocking her right-wing party from running in next month’s regional elections.

MYANMAR’S military government said yesterday that its opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was “physically well” and charged that US claims that she was on a hunger strike to protest at her three-month incarceration were the result of “spin doctors”.

Sinn Fein has today warned the British Government that policing reforms will have to be renegotiated if republicans are to back them.