On October 1, Rabbi Eiran and his Naama, who were in their 30s, were travelling between the West Bank Jewish settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh with their four children when they were murdered by Palestinian terrorists.

Explosions caused by a bomb left in a bag near labourers waiting for day's work in Baghdad and a suicide bomber in a restaurant in northern Iraq killed at least eight people today and wounded 19 more.

Actor and activist Martin Sheen has defended the rights of Hollywood anti-war protesters to express their views on March 23.