Five young American terror suspects arrested in Pakistan were never exhibited any signs of religious extremism, their mosque's youth chief said.

Fears were growing today for the health of an elderly Irish missionary who was dramatically kidnapped in the Philippines by armed raiders who burst into his home.

THE lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks pleaded guilty and gave a detailed account of the plot and his role in the rampage along with 10 gunmen that left 166 people dead and paralysed the city for three days.

The sole surviving gunman from last year’s Mumbai massacre dramatically admitted his guilt today in a detailed account of the plot that left 166 people dead.

Saoirse Abu was cut for next season’s 1000 Guineas after stamping her quality on the Moyglare Stud Stakes with a hard-fought success at the Curragh.

Henrythenavigator found himself stuck in the testing ground as he conceded his unbeaten record to 25-1 outsider Saoirse Abu in the Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh.

Henrythenavigator was floored by Saoirse Abu in a shock outcome to the Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh.

Henrythenavigator, ante-post favourite for next year’s Stan James 2000 Guineas, is an odds-on chance to lift Sunday’s Independent Water’ford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh.

ABU Musab al-Zarqawi rose from the life of a street thug in Jordan to become the symbol of ‘holy war’ in Iraq, masterminding the bloodiest suicide bombings of the insurgency, beheading hostages and helping push Iraq into a spiral of sectarian violence with vicious attacks against Shi’ites.

DC UNITED have insisted Freddy Adu is not for sale and claim they have received no bid for the 16-year-old prodigy.

“THE entire continent is involved,” the man investigating whether Europe’s governments are facilitating the CIA in the kidnap and torture of terror suspects claimed in his first report yesterday.

An elephant crushed a keeper to death at the Vienna Zoo today.

A US ARMY investigator yesterday told a hearing for Private Lynndie England, accused of abusing Iraqi inmates, that her boyfriend was a “ringleader” at Abu Ghraib prison.

Israel will kill more militant chiefs in raids like the one that decapitated a Hamas leader yesterday if the Palestinians do not begin arresting and disarming the extremists, Israeli officials warned today.

IRELAND’S Peter Charles survived a dramatic moment at Hickstead when his hat slipped over his face and he jumped blindfold down the Derby Bank - but still managed to go clear and repeat his 2001 victory in the Bunn Leisure British Jumping Derby with Corrada.