AN EU study has ruled out introducing a system of reduced airport security checks for low-risk passengers because of fears security would be compromised.

Insurgents determined to wreck Iraq’s constitutional referendum killed nearly 45 people and wounded dozens in a series of attacks today, including a suicide car-bomb that ripped apart a crowded market in a town near the Syrian border, police said.

An election official today said Iraqi law will allow Saddam Hussein and thousands of other Iraqi detainees to vote in this weekend’s crucial constitutional referendum.

THE former Irish girlfriend of a jailed Syrian-backed bomb plotter has vowed to halt British authorities from freeing him on parole.