Sharon heads home after suicide bomb

Prime minister Ariel Sharon was today on his way back to Israel after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a pool hall packed with teenagers, killing himself and 15 others.

The force of yesterday’s blast blew out the front of the third-floor club in a business district of Rishon Letzion, a city 10 miles south of Tel Aviv, collapsing the ceiling and sending glass and rubble flying into the street below.