A MASSIVE 1.136 million viewers were recorded at 9.45pm, the final minute of Ireland-Italy on Wednesday night, the highest peak audience recorded so far in Ireland’s 2010 World Cup qualifier games.

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI has admitted that Ireland’s game against his homeland in Bari on April 1 will be an emotional occasion for him.

A BABY boy born with two heads has been put under police protection in Bangladesh, because of the curiosity his birth has caused among locals.

Al-Qaida today posted a video showing what it claimed to be an attack by its fighters seizing a US-Afghan post in southern Afghanistan, in what experts said was a step-up in the terror group’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda.

BRITISH Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly yesterday urged council leaders to raise their game in the fight against extremism.

The refusal to allow singer Yusuf Islam into the US on national security grounds was a “slap in the face of sanity”, a Muslim group said today.

The Northern Alliance says it is boosting its troop strength in the strategic Panjshir Valley.

US war jets pounded Taliban positions north of Kabul today in the fourth straight day of front line assaults apparently aimed at helping the opposition advance on the capital.

The son of Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, has reportedly been killed in the air strikes.