A Taliban suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-packed car near the international airport in Afghanistan’s capital, killing at least three people, including a British citizen.

The Prince of Wales will make an emotional trip to Mullaghmore in the west of Ireland where his great uncle Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA, officials have confirmed.

Some of the more unusual news from around the globe.

Radioactive contamination was detected on a grounded plane used by the suspected murderers of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko after reassurances from Russian authorities that nothing was found, an inquiry has revealed.

The British Embassy in Cairo has been forced to close for security reasons, the UK ambassador to Egypt has said.

A British man has been questioned in relation to the murders of two Britons found dead in Thailand.

Defence Minister Simon Coveney does not believe US president Barack Obama’s pronouncements on the Middle East should be a concern for Irish peacekeepers in the region.

Nicolas Roche’s Tinkoff-Saxo team have suffered a blow ahead of tomorrow’s Giro d’Italia start in Belfast, with new signing Edward Beltran having been refused visa access by the British Embassy.

Chelsea have confirmed that there were two incidents involving supporters in Istanbul on yesterday evening, with police warning it is “not safe” for fans to use the Metro to and from the Champions League last-16 clash with Galatasaray.

Authorities in Iran have arrested a man on charges of spying for Britain, according to media reports in the country.

Muse have to bribe people to let them use their special effects in live shows.

All Britons have been urged by the UK government to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi in response to a “specific and imminent threat” against westerners.

The wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai lured a British businessman to a hotel in Chongqing, where she got him drunk and fed him poison, one of China’s highest-profile murder trials in years heard.

The wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai lured a British businessman to a hotel in the south-western mega-city of Chongqing, where she got him drunk and fed him poison, according to testimony today in one of China’s highest-profile murder trials in years.

The United States have started the defence of their gold medal with two successive wins, but setter Donald Suxho has been unable to settle properly owing to the absence of his wife.

IN Derry, Jan 30, 1972, on what became known as Bloody Sunday, 13 civil rights protesters were shot dead by the British Army.

On her first visit to Ireland in 1972, an in-love Sue Leonard was enchanted by its beauty and shocked by the violent aftermath of Bloody Sunday

Riot police and protesters are squaring off outside the British Embassy in Buenos Aires amid an escalating diplomatic dispute over the Falkland Islands.

A man calling himself “Psycho” has been further remanded in custody charged with the December 26 murder of an Indian student in Britain.

The Philippines government shipped more than 400 coffins today to two flood-stricken cities in the south where the death toll neared 1,000 as President Benigno Aquino III declared a state of national calamity and relief agencies rushed to help.

A CANISTER containing powerful explosive material blew apart the front of a minibus near the British Embassy in Bahrain’s capital.

Hard-line Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran today, tearing down the Union flag and throwing documents from windows in scenes reminiscent of the anger against Western powers after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

A strong earthquake shook north-eastern India and Nepal tonight, killing at least 16 people, damaging buildings and sending MPs in Nepal’s capital running into the streets.

MY esteemed colleague Terry Prone made the point in this space yesterday that the hardest question to answer, in the face of the riots that engulfed Britain last week, is why.

Four British people injured in a polar bear attack while on an adventure holiday in north Norway have undergone surgery and are recovering in hospital, medical staff said today.

IT IS almost certain the Olympic Torch will visit Ireland next year for the first time in the history of the Games.

NOT quite London’s Palladium, but Dublin’s brand new National Convention Centre came pretty close last night as it hosted an Irish-style Royal Variety Performance to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Ireland.

The Queen's historic visit to Ireland was hailed as a spectacular diplomatic triumph tonight.

AS a rule, heads of State don’t really get to have a holiday when performing official duties overseas.

North Korea today said it had handed over the remains of a British pilot shot down during the Korean War.

The Libyan Ambassador to the UK has been expelled.

TWO thousand guests have been invited to celebrate Ireland’s links with Britain at a special ceremony during the British queen’s first official visit to Ireland.

Two thousand guests have been invited to celebrate Ireland’s links with Britain at a special ceremony during the Queen’s first official visit to the country.

A MEXICAN teenager with an extreme case of royal wedding fever has ended a hunger strike after a knight in shining armour offered to pay her airfare to London.

AN Iraqi court convicted a British man and sentenced him to 20 years in prison over the shooting dead of two contractors, making him the first Westerner convicted in an Iraqi court since the 2003 US invasion.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has said four of those injured in this morning's aircraft crash at Cork Airport are in a serious condition.

A British security contractor told an Iraqi court today that he was acting in self-defence when he shot two colleagues, claiming that they had threatened to kill him after a drunken brawl in Baghdad’s Green Zone.

At least 39 people have died of torture in Uzbekistan jails this year amid a growing crackdown on religious groups and government critics, a respected rights group has said.

North Koreans got a rare treat this week: a state TV broadcast of the film 'Bend it Like Beckham'.

A group of American embassy staffers came under attack when a bomb was thrown near their vehicle outside a restaurant in Yemen's capital, officials said today.

A group of Americans have come under attack in their vehicle outside a restaurant in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, officials say.

More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside the British Embassy in Madrid tonight to protest at the detention of the founder of the WikiLeaks website and the closing of the site's Swiss bank account.

The US and Australia today warned of possible terrorist attacks in Manila and the southern Philippines, sparking a security alarm in the bustling capital with additional deployments of police patrols and intelligence agents.