Republic of Ireland skipper Robbie Keane was in no mood to give out any World Cup pointers after his goals sunk Algeria.

An international terror cell was smashed with the arrest of 17 Algerians across Europe, police said today.

A son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is behind a group of foreign and Iraqi fighters responsible for this week’s devastating explosion in northern Iraq, a security chief for Sunni tribesmen who rose up against al-Qaida said today.

I READ with interest Kyran Fitzgerald’s reference (Irish Examiner, November 24) to reports that, of all immigrant groups, north Africans have the lowest sense of identity with Ireland and the lowest level of social interaction.

LIFE imitates art. Just over 10 years ago, a French film called La Haine (Hatred) won critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival.

The vast majority of suicide attackers in Iraq are thought to be foreigners - mostly Saudis and other Gulf Arabs – and the trend has become more pronounced this year with North Africans also streaming in to carry out deadly missions, US and Iraqi officials say.

Spanish police today stopped 49 North Africans trying to reach Spain illegally in a small boat.

SPANISH TV yesterday broadcast chilling security-camera footage of the Madrid train bombings in which 191 people died. It showed at least one bomb exploding inside a train at Atocha station.

Seven North Africans arrested by Spanish police were plotting a major bombing attack against the National Court, a hub of Spain’s investigations of Islamic terrorism, newspapers reported today.

Anti-terrorism police in Milan have arrested seven North Africans and a Romanian suspected of supplying false documents to Osama bin Laden’s alleged European logistics chief and others.