A man accused of driving a car into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters in Virginia was fascinated with Nazism, idolised Adolf Hitler and had been singled out at school for his "deeply held, radical" convictions on race, a teacher has said.

Islamic State has struck back as Iraqi forces close in on victory in Mosul, sending women suicide bombers to target soldiers as the battle for the country's second-largest city nears its end.

In a west African country where militant and terrorist attacks are “entirely unpredictable”, Irish soldiers are helping to train the Malian army to enforce the rule of law.

There were heartbreaking scenes as the young son of champion jockey John Thomas McNamara asked angels to look after his dad, who passed away last Tuesday from injuries sustained three years ago, in a horror fall at Cheltenham.

Latest: It has now been confirmed that 20 hostages have been killed during a siege in a cafe in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka.

A missing part of the story of the German ship the Aud — the location of its tonnes of arms and ammunition planned for the South-West Volunteers to be stored for Easter Monday’s Rising — is believed to have been filled.

Suspected Islamic extremists detonated three explosive devices in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, in Nigeria’s north east – killing eight people.

Suspected Jewish extremists have set fire to two Palestinian homes in the West Bank, killing a child and critically injuring four people.

The fugitive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army is sick and in retreat from an international manhunt, defectors claim.

One hundred years ago this week chemical weapons were used for the first time, opening up a new chapter in conflict. Ann Cahill talks to some of the troops still cleaning them up    

The parents of an Irish American US Navy Seal who was killed in action in Afghanistan a decade ago, and whose story inspired a Hollywood movie, have expressed delight at an Irish group’s decision to honour his memory.

An Air Corps officer has launched several High Court challenges aimed at preventing his court martial from going ahead.

Tunisia’s prime minister has sacked five leading security officials days after three gunmen attacked a Tunis museum, killing 21 people.

Continuing attacks from rebels are delaying Ukrainian forces’ pullback of heavy weapons from the front line in the country’s east, a Ukrainian military spokesman said today.

At least two rockets launched from Syria have struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and Israel responded with artillery fire.

Several rockets have struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and the Israeli military says it has responded with artillery fire.

Weather hinders divers’ bid to identify sunken wreckage

Israel’s military has hit a Hamas site in the Gaza Strip in its first air strike on the Palestinian territory since the summer’s war.

Millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani never sent a text message to his shuttle driver hours before he and his wife Anni were hijacked, his lawyer has told his murder trial in South Africa.

One of the largest military convoys ever seen in this country travelled along Cork roads yesterday as part of an exercise which will shortly see Irish troops become part of an elite EU rapid reaction force.

Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout early yesterday and killed two Palestinians suspected of the June abduction and slaying of three Israeli teenagers.

Two US F-22 fighter jets intercepted six Russian military airplanes that neared the western coast of Alaska, military officials said.

Hamas said it has agreed to a 24-hour humanitarian truce in the Gaza war ahead of a major Muslim holiday.

Israel has denied claims by Hamas that they have kidnapped one of its soldiers in Gaza.

Israel briefly deployed ground troops inside the Gaza Strip for the first time today as its military warned Gazans to evacuate as part of a widening offensive that has killed more than 160 Palestinians.

Israeli air strikes targeting Hamas in Gaza have hit a mosque as the Palestinian death toll topped 120 in an offensive that shows no signs of slowing down.

Rockets fired from Lebanon have struck Israel as long-range missile fire from Gaza continued against the country for a fourth day.

Israel dramatically escalated its aerial assault targeting hundreds of Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip yesterday.

The Israeli military has launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, striking at least 50 sites in Gaza by air and sea.

Three Israeli suspects in the killing of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned to death last week confessed to the crime and were re-enacting the incident for authorities, an official said, as the country’s leaders raced to contain a public uproar over the slaying.

The Israeli army has re-arrested 51 former Palestinian prisoners in a furious search for three missing teenagers believed to have been abducted in the West Bank.

Israel’s military says it has arrested around 80 Palestinians in the West Bank, including members of the militant group Hamas, as part of efforts to locate three teenagers believed abducted in the territory while hitch-hiking.

They were singing on the banks of the Lee last night as Cork’s longest-running festival kicked off its diamond jubilee event on a high note.

A British sniper killed five Taliban insurgents and a would-be suicide bomber in Afghanistan with one bullet, the Ministry of Defence has said.

Two men toting a briefcase stuffed with false bond certificates purportedly worth trillions of euro tried to bluff their way into the exclusive Vatican bank in a foiled fraud plot, Italian police said.

Cork is set to become the choral capital of Europe next month as one of the city’s longest- running festivals celebrates its diamond jubilee.

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A Michael Collins-themed day is to be held in Cork on Wednesday and will offer a rare opportunity to see armoured fighting vehicles from 1922, including the Slieve na mBan in which he was fatally wounded at Béal na mBláth in 1922.

Cork’s Rebel Week organisers have put the “Big Fella langer” controversy behind them to unveil full details of the city and county’s flagship Gathering event.