SHANE JENNINGS hopes to find out tonight if he will be eligible for Leinster’s crunch Heineken Cup tie against Wasps at Twickenham on Saturday after the province decided to appeal the three-week ban handed to the flanker last Tuesday.

A suicide car bomb went off in a crowded market in northern Iraq today, moments after a booby-trapped vehicle exploded, killing at least nine people and injuring 60, police said.

About 70 victims of a mass kidnapping at an office of the Higher Education Ministry have been released, a ministry spokesman said today, but officials were unable to say how many remained captive.