Ah, good old fight gameMonopoly - having just turned 80 years old, the creator of more family arguments than any other form of recreation is releasing a special round-the-world edition.

David Cameron has urged schools to recognise their role in the “fight against Islamist extremist terror” as police urgently try to trace three girls believed to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State.

The US military’s European Command said yesterday it has ordered its troops to avoid wearing their uniforms when off base, and to ensure the security settings and geolocation functions on their social media pages aren’t "overly revealing".

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The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group has said it intends to join peace talks with the Syrian government if conditions are met.

By abandoning much of the baroque pomp of his predecessor Benedict, the new pope has already won many admirers, write Philip Pullella and Catherine Hornby

The sun and the States remain the traditional hotspots for Irish holidaymakers, but an increasing number of thrillseekers are looking to emerging democracies such as Libya for a trip with an edge.

Representatives from six world powers are meeting counterparts from Iran in Istanbul, Turkey, today.

United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan was in Beijing today to seek China’s backing for his plan for a negotiated end to the bloody conflict in Syria.

Leevale’s Ciarán Ó Lionaird and Derval O’Rourke spearhead Ireland’s hopes of medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey today knowing they will have to be in top form to compete with the best.

Madonna has announced her 2012 World Tour. It includes a July 24 date in Dublin's Aviva Stadium.

Iran says it has proposed a new round of talks on its nuclear programme with six world powers that have been trying for years to persuade Tehran to freeze aspects of its atomic work that could provide a possible pathway to weapons production.

SYRIAN forces killed 111 people ahead of the start of a mission to monitor President Bashar al-Assad’s implementation of an Arab League peace plan, activists claimed.

Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu has said seven people were injured in a blast at a shopping centre in Istanbul, Turkey.

The exodus of foreigners from Cairo continued today as dozens of evacuation planes arrived, but the airport itself was still in disarray with crowds of more than 4,500 stranded passengers.

TOURISM Ireland has outlined a raft of plans to market Cork city around the globe.

Finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich countries warned the global recovery remained “fragile” and tried to talk up the US dollar amid fears it could fall further and disrupt the global economy.

WORLD champ Katie Taylor will have a golden ticket to the next level of her brilliant boxing career – the 2012 Olympics.

A Depeche Mode concert had to be scrapped at the last minute after lead singer David Gahan was taken to hospital.

Katie Taylor, Paddy Barnes and Carl Frampton all won their semi-final bouts at the men's and women's Ahmet Comert Cup in Istanbul, Turkey today.

IF experience can buy one thing, it is the ability to deal with success and failure... and Irish show jumping team manager Robert Splaine has more than enough experience to handle the proverbial two sides of the same coin.

More than 600 years after the Italian city of Pisa’s most famous monument was built, construction starts in June of a modern glass and steel building that will simulate a tilt with a trick of lighting.

A five-floor apartment building collapsed in Istanbul, Turkey, this morning, killing at least two people and injuring 16 others, the governor said.

Pope Benedict XVI visited the famous Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, today, in a gesture toward Muslims.

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.

An explosion today near a bus terminal in Istanbul, Turkey, has injured at least four people.

Preliminary results released from ballots cast by expatriate Iraqis and an early vote carried out for soldiers, hospital patients and prisoners, showed a coalition of Kurdish parties and the main Shiite religious bloc each taking about a third of the vote.

A small bomb exploded outside a massage and acupuncture clinic in Istanbul, Turkey, causing some damage but no injuries, the Anatolia news agency reported today.

Liverpool is bracing itself for football mania today as Reds fans prepare for their first European Cup final in 20 years.

Corkman Kevin Cullinane has been elected Junior Chamber International World President at the 59th JCI World Congress held in Fukuoka, Japan.

The Christian Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria was killed today when an army helicopter that was transporting him and his entourage to a monastic enclave in northern Greece crashed in the sea, government and church officials said.

The Al-Qaida terror network spent less than €44,600 on each of its major attacks except the September 11 suicide hijackings and one of its hallmarks is using readily-available items like mobile phones and knives as weapons, a new United Nations report says.

An Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for today’s bombings in Istanbul, Turkey, that killed two people and wounded 11.

The UN Security Council renewed the authorisation for the Nato-led force in Bosnia for six months and welcomed the European Union’s intention to take over the peacekeeping effort by the end of the year.

THE United States transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government two days early yesterday in a surprise move that apparently caught insurgents off guard, averting a feared campaign of attacks to sabotage the move toward self-rule.

German police today shut the street in front of the British Embassy in Berlin to traffic, a move they said was aimed at bringing security at the site in line with measures at US, Israeli and Jewish facilities in the capital.

A BOMB apparently hidden in a pickup truck exploded yesterday at the offices of a US-allied Kurdish political party in Kirkuk, killing five people and wounding 40, including children.

A perceived increase in European anti-Semitism is to be the focus of talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Italian leaders during Sharon’s three-day visit to Rome, an Israeli official said.

For weeks, the creaky Balkan Sky, loaded with more than 600 tons of explosives, languished off the Turkish coast waiting for orders to set sail for Sudan with tons of explosives.

Pakistan authorities have launched a nationwide manhunt for a key suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States after he apparently entered the country from Afghanistan, officials said.