JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has defended the move to establish a crime of blasphemous libel, stating only that a definition was required by the Constitution. It is difficult not to be disturbed by the development.

Israel began the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners from three detention facilities today to relieve overcrowding.

A bus driver who escaped the latest bombing in Israel says it is the fourth time he has survived a terror attack in recent months.

At least 14 people have been killed and more than 45 have been injured after a car bomb exploded next to a bus in Israel.