Germany 2 Algeria 1 (AET) (Score 0-0 after 90 minutes)

Algeria’s four-day hostage stand-off came to a bloody end today when the country’s special forces stormed the remote desert gas plant and killed 11 militants, but not before they in turn executed seven hostages, Algerian state news agency APS reported.

DAMIEN DUFF is challenging his team-mates to carry their World Cup form into the fight for Euro 2012 qualification.

Ten suspected terrorists, including a man prosecutors claim is a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, stand trial in Paris today for a foiled plot to bomb the famed Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg on New Year’s Eve 2000.