US President George W. Bush expressed "deep disgust" today at the apparent abuse of Iraqi detainees by US troops and vowed to punish those responsible.
Britan's Daily Mirror newspaper published photographs today which it claimed showed British troops abusing an Iraqi prisoner in a camp near Basra, southern Iraq.
An explosion tore through a coal mine in remote northern China overnight, killing at least 34 miners and leaving another two trapped underground, state media said.
US President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney answered questions today from September 11 commissioners trying to learn how followers of Osama bin Laden pulled off the worst terrorist attack in American history.
US Marines announced the end of the bloody three-week-old siege of Fallujah, saying yesterday they would pull back from the city and allow a new, all-Iraqi force move in and take over security.