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Palestinian officials have asked the UN Security Council to act to halt Israel’s military operation in Gaza.

NORTHERN IRELAND’S slim hopes of a Euro 2012 play-off – and possibly Nigel Worthington’s prospects of a new contract – were finally extinguished with a second defeat at the hands of lowly Estonia.

Northern Ireland’s hopes of reaching Euro 2012 were reduced to tatters in Tallinn as a series of individual mistakes left them on the wrong end of a humbling defeat by Estonia.

The United Nations Security Council has finally responded to the escalating violence in Syria, condemning President Bashar Assad's forces for attacking civilians and committing human rights abuses.

REFERENCING ‘spinning heads and pea soup’ is as good a way as any to get your exorcism movie compared with The Exorcist (1973), and while The Rite (US/16/113 mins) is no horror classic, it’s a solid retread of its more illustrious predecessor.

ANTHONY STOKES was on fire as he gave Noel King a debut to remember as new Republic of Ireland under-21 boss.

THE Labour Court has made one of its highest ever awards, €204,352, to a man found to have worked for seven years for payments understood to be less than the minimum wage.

THE Garda Síochána is only “partially open” to ethnic minorities, a leading member of the Sikh community told a Garda conference yesterday.

SCIENTISTS have proven our grandmothers were right after all — eating fish will increase your brain power.

AN Irish doctor who has carried out research on birth defects has won a major international award for his contribution to children’s health.