Osama bin Laden’s “demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace with human dignity,” President Obama stressed on Sunday night.

Europe’s governments were today ordered by a court to follow the UK’s lead and take Iran’s main opposition group off a blacklist of suspected terror organisations.

IS Pope Benedict a secret weapon of al-Qaida?

AS THE sky grew dark over Croke Park on Monday night it all became clear.

Russian President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath on the late-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s tomb in Ramallah today and held talks with Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, but Palestinians held out little hope for concrete results.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today expressed concern about India’s gas-pipeline project with Iran and said New Delhi should consider alternative ways to meet its energy needs.

Manchester and Teheran may not have a great deal in common on the face of it, but they do for Sunderland midfielder Jason McAteer.

An Iranian airliner crashed as it landed at Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates today, killing at least 35 people.

An Iranian airliner which crashed in the United Arab Emirates this morning had more than 50 people on board.

RESCUE workers pulled three more survivors from the rubble of Bam’s devastating earthquake yesterday — including a man saved from a flattened house — as relief crews restored some electricity and rushed more aid into the ruined ancient city.

Rescue workers pulled three more survivors from the rubble of Bam’s devastating earthquake – including a man saved today from a flattened house – as relief crews restored some electricity and rushed more aid into the ruined ancient city.

A man was pulled alive from the rubble of Iran’s devastating earthquake today as relief workers restored some electricity and rushed more aid into the ruined ancient city of Bam.

Iran has made enough headway in 18 years of concealed activity to be able to produce nuclear weapons before the end of the decade, even if its facilities are opened to international inspection, a senior US official has said.

Ahead of a key trip to Teheran by the chief of the UN atomic watchdog agency, an Iranian opposition group said it had evidence of a new secret site used by Teheran to test equipment for a nuclear weapons programme.

Irish companies were tonight preparing for a bout of mystery illnesses and absenteeism to hit their workforces tomorrow afternoon.

Roy Keane has been ruled out of the second leg of the World Cup play-off against Iran which will be played in Teheran on Thursday.

The country is expected to come to a halt when Ireland take on Iran in the World Cup play-off at Lansdowne Road today.

An Israeli minister says the country should send its army into Palestinian-controlled areas and destroy the entire military infrastructure there.