A man suspected of heading a vast international drugs, guns and money laundering empire was arrested during raids in Ireland, Britain and mainland Europe today.

The British Security Services plotted to blow up Sinn Féin's Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a former undercover police officer claimed today.

Seb Sanders was in sparkling form at Goodwood, taking the feature EBF Begbies-Traynor Conqueror Stakes as part of a 77-1 treble.

Dissident elements within the British security services are undermining progress made by the IRA during the peace process, Gerry Adams has warned.

A truck carrying more than a ton of explosives was found near the Chechen capital, Grozny, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service said today, announcing that a major terrorist attack had been averted in the run-up to next week’s Victory in Europe holiday.

A judge on the special tribunal that will put Saddam Hussein and members of his former regime on trial was assassinated in the Iraqi capital, according to an Iraqi police official and a media report.

An investigation into the ambush and killings of 50 US-trained Iraqi soldiers is looking into whether insurgents got inside information, Iraqi officials said

Iraqi officials suspect that 50 US trained Iraqi soldiers murdered by insurgents – many of them execution-style – may have been set up by rebel infiltrators in their ranks.

A LONG-RUNNING dispute at a security transit company, which has left hundreds of cash machines empty across the east coast, finally ended yesterday.

FEAR for their lives is the stark reason why SIPTU workers have rejected a formula aimed at ending a dispute which has left large numbers of ATM machines on the east coast without cash.

THE Palestinian authority plunged deeper into crisis yesterday when parliament called on Yasser Arafat to accept the resignation of his prime minister and militants kidnapped a senior official in the West Bank.

An FBI spy testifying against alleged Real IRA chief Michael McKevitt suggested he should be hypnotised in order to remember details of meetings with dissident republicans which he infiltrated, a court heard today.