President Barrack Obama has told US television networks that photographs of Osama Bin Laden's body will not be released.

BEFORE the dawn comes the darkest hour. This week’s choreography between the Minister for Finance, Central Bank governor and Financial Regulator seeks to reconstruct the Irish banking system. We have to hope it works. Don’t be too fearful about the enormous sums being injected into AIB and Bank of Ireland.

ANTI-WAR activists have slammed the Government for committing itself to an ongoing role in the “unjustified war being waged in Afghanistan”.