US troop problems
The US military has faced problems from members of a reserve US army unit in Iraq by refusing to undertake a convoy mission.
Militants strike inside Baghdad Green Zone
Insurgents have penetrated Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone to carry out two bomb attacks that killed five people and injured some 20 others.
Oil prices rise again
Crude oil prices has again reached a record high in the US, after official reports on the decline in heating oil stocks.
Iraqi nuclear assets ‘gone’
Equipment and materials used to make nuclear arms could have been vanishing in Iraq since the invasion, the United Nations warned.
Nine die in ‘suicide pacts’ in Japan
Japanese police have found nine bodies who apparently committed suicide after meeting via special suicide sites on the internet.
World ‘can end African poverty’
The means to lift Africa out of poverty are within the world's grasp, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.
Report fuel Iraq war debate
An official US report saying Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction when US-led forces invaded has intensified the debate about justification for the war.
Indonesian result accepted
World leaders have congratulated Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on winning Indonesia's presidential election.
Inspectors: No WMD in Iraq
The Iraq Survey Group will report that Saddam Hussein had no banned weapons before the US-led invasion.
Island migrants sent back from Italy
Italy has begun airlifting migrants back to their point of departure after facilities on its southern outpost were swamped by hundreds of new arrivals.