Three murdered Irish tourists were ordinary people on a summer holiday, who were just hours away from flying home, when Seifeddine Rezgui took to Marhaba beach armed with an assault rifle and grenades and massacre of the innocent on his mind, reports Cormac O’Keeffe.

Fifteen British people have been confirmed dead in the Tunisia attack, with a warning that the toll could rise.

The US death toll in Iraq has topped 4,000 after a roadside bomb killed four soldiers in Baghdad.

The US military said today that it accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians during an operation targeting al-Qaida in Iraq south of Baghdad.