Prosecutors in Italy say they fear more bodies will be found aboard the crippled Greek ferry Norman Atlantic, adrift for a third day after a fire broke out on a car deck, with 10 people killed in the ensuing chaos.

‘We experienced the Titanic — the only thing was we didn’t sink’.

A cargo ship carrying 49 people evacuated from a Greek ferry which caught fire in the Adriatic Sea have arrived in the Italian port of Bari, the first big group to reach land.

Rescue crews battled gale-force winds and massive waves as they struggled to rescue hundreds of people trapped on a burning ferry adrift between Italy and Albania.

Shannon could be in line for a jobs boost if Government plans to develop an international aid hub at the airport get the green light.

A bomb exploded outside a high school in southern Italy named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor as students arrived for class today, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said.

In Italy, a 16-year-old female student has been killed and at least seven people are injured after a bomb exploded this morning in the southern city of Brindisi.

AT least 85 people have been killed with hundreds more feared dead after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore has expressed his sympathy to the Government and people of Turkey, following this morning's devastating earthquake.

Ryanair has today confirmed that it will further reduce its flights and traffic at Dublin Airport this summer by up to 20%.

RYANAIR has plans to start more routes this year than any other airline worldwide with analysts predicting it could return to aircraft buying in the coming years.

Ryanair has announced plans to open two new bases in the Italian cities of Bari and Brindisi.

'The Dark Knight' star Maggie Gyllenhaal has wed her actor boyfriend Peter Sarsgaard in a romantic ceremony in Italy.

How nice, I thought, they remembered.

Airlines must pay compensation to passengers whose flights are cancelled because of technical problems with the plane, European judges ruled today.

IRELAND is the sixth largest aid donor per capita in the world, having donated €870 million last year to crises and humanitarian needs.

The Government wants more recruits for its international disaster response unit.

The Irish Government today began deploying emergency supplies of tents, blankets and cooking equipment to earthquake-ravaged Peru.

IRELAND’S ability to rapidly respond to worldwide disasters will be bolstered when a humanitarian aid depot opens in the Curragh next month, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern said yesterday.

The first flight carrying Irish-funded aid supplies will leave from Italy this weekend to help victims devastated by floods in Pakistan.

A new crack team of humanitarian experts will be ready to be deployed to a disaster zone by the Autumn, the Government said today.

Italian police arrested five people today, including a local British Gas manager, in a corruption probe into the firm’s construction of a gas plant in southern Italy.

LOCATING Irish aid supplies like tents and blankets at a UN hub in Italy will save thousands of lives in natural disasters, a leading UN aid coordinator said yesterday.

A TURKISH army deserter who hijacked a flight to Italy has told prosecutors he was seeking asylum because he fears persecution in his Muslim homeland after his conversion to Christianity and wanted Pope Benedict XVI’s protection.

Italian officials today said they intend to prosecute a Turkish man for hijacking a plane, despite his appeal for political asylum on the grounds that he is being persecuted as a Christian in Muslim Turkey.

The Turk who hijacked a Turkish Airlines plane to Italy feared for his safety because he converted to Christianity and wanted to deliver a message for Pope Benedict XVI but had no physical letter, Italy’s interior minister told politicians in Rome today.

The man who hijacked a Turkish plane today was an army deserter who had fled to Albania and was seeking political asylum.

A Turkish man hijacked a jet carrying 113 people from Albania to Istanbul today and forced the aircraft to land in Italy, where he surrendered and released all the passengers unharmed.

The two Turkish hijackers of a Turkish Airlines jet carrying 113 people from Albania to Istanbul have surrendered to Italian police, Ansa News Agency reported tonight.

A Turkish Airlines plane carrying more than 100 passengers from Tirana, Albania, to Istanbul, was hijacked today and landed at Italy’s Brindisi airport, company spokesman Ali Genc said.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon today, a day after Italy and Turkey moved to join the international force there.

A British passenger plane en route to an Egyptian holiday resort made an emergency landing today in Brindisi, southern Italy, after the pilot reported that a bomb was suspectedto be on board.

A British passenger plane requested an emergency landing today in Brindisi, southern Italy, because of a suspected bomb on board, the Italian air traffic agency said.

TWO Turks who wanted to protest Pope Benedict XVI’s planned trip to Turkey next month hijacked a Turkish Airlines jet carrying 113 people from Albania to Istanbul yesterday.

A plane carrying more than 200 British holidaymakers was forced to land mid-flight after smoke began pouring from an onboard oven.

Ryanair is to add extra services to London from Dublin and Kerry, as part of its new summer schedule.

Justine Henin-Hardenne, semi-finalist and finalist in Wimbledon’s last two championships and currently champion of France, again had to rouse herself against an opponent of surprising quality to earn a passage into the third round.