THE Old Lady of Turin has batted her eyelids in Shamrock Rovers direction and tonight they have their chance to respond in the Europa League Second Qualifying Round Second Leg (kick-off 6.30pm Irish time).

Israeli police said today they had arrested several dozen people in a violent protest by ultra-Orthodox activists opposed to an excavation they say is disturbing Jewish grave sites.

Mordechai Vanunu was released from prison today after serving 18 years for spilling Israel’s nuclear secrets, saying he was proud of his actions and complaining he was treated cruelly by his jailers.

Actress Susannah York and anti-nuclear activists from around the world gathered today to welcome freed whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, as Israel slapped tough restrictions on his movements, fearing he has more secrets to spill.

Dozens of anti-nuclear campaigners rallied outside Mordechai Vanunu’s prison today, a day ahead of his release, praising the former nuclear technician as a hero for revealing Israel’s nuclear secrets 18 years ago.

Mordechai Vanunu betrayed his country by spilling its nuclear secrets and restrictions imposed on him upon his release from prison are justified, Shimon Peres, the founder of Israel’s nuclear programme, said today.

TENS of thousands of Palestinians marched in a funeral procession of a leading militant yesterday, vowing revenge after a week of violence in which Israeli forces have killed 31 Palestinians.

ABU NIDAL, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists linked to the bombing of the Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, was found dead in his Baghdad apartment, officials said yesterday.

DESCRIBED by Israel as the Gaza Strip's "most brilliant and brutal terrorist," Salah Shehadeh spent more than a decade in Israeli and Palestinian jails, and for the last three years was often in hiding as he oversaw Hamas' frequent attacks.

Described by Israel as the Gaza Strip’s ‘‘most brilliant and brutal terrorist,’’ Salah Shehadeh spent more than a decade in Israeli and Palestinian jails, and for the last three years was often in hiding as he oversaw Hamas’ frequent attacks.

Israeli warplanes demolished a building in the West Bank, in retaliation for yesterday's suicide bombing in Jerusalem.

A car bomb has exploded in the centre of Jerusalem, not far from the place where a similar bomb went off nine hours earlier.