YouTube — it’s a weird and wonderful place, full of crazy cat videos and thought-provoking Ted Talks, celebrity gaffes and hard-hitting documentaries.

THE founders of LinkedIn and Youtube have been confirmed as speakers at the Dublin Web Summit — Ireland’s largest tech event.

IRELAND has agreed to take two of the prisoners from the American concentration camp at Guantanamo, Cuba because they cannot go back to their home country, Uzbekistan. The Americans would like us to think they have jailed only crazed Muslim terrorists in Guantanamo, but people should ask who were held there.

Thousands of troops were deployed across Pakistan today to boost security ahead of next week’s parliamentary elections with officials denying they would be used to influence voting.

A MAN carrying explosives blew himself up near a powerful Afghan warlord in Kabul yesterday, injuring several people but not the apparent target, officials said.