RESCUE teams were working yesterday to recover the bodies of as many as three people missing from a Tunisian airliner crash that killed at least 13 people.

A Tunisian passenger plane crash-landed into the Mediterranean Sea today killing 19 people, a Palermo prosecutor said.

Turkish officials were investigating claims that the al-Qaida terrorist network was responsible for the car bombings that devastated two Istanbul synagogues and killed 23 people, the prime minister said.

Tunisia acknowledged that a deadly gas truck explosion near a historic synagogue was caused by a criminal act.

At least five people were killed in an explosion at a synagogue on the Tunisian holiday island of Djerba today.