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Washington is on a collision course with its Iraqi allies because it is no longer prepared to cede full sovereignty to the interim government scheduled to be set up by June 30.

The discovery of a planned massive chemical bomb attack by alleged al-Qaeda associates in the Jordanian capital, Amman, again has underlined the resilience of Osama bin Laden's global terror network.

North Korea yesterday baulked at opening its heavily-armed border to relief from rival South Korea, despite rising international concern for thousands injured and left homeless by a massive train blast.

The European Union pledged millions of dollars in aid for Turkish Cyprus yesterday despite the failure of a peace plan to unite the island.

Snipers shot four paramilitary police, killing two, amid worsening religious conflict on the Indonesian island of Ambon yesterday.

Iraq will trade its 50-year-old flag, a symbol of its bygone pan-Arab aspirations, for one symbolising its two main rivers and Islam, the Governing Council says.

Israeli military officials today said they believed Mahmoud Zahar, a surgeon and prominent Hamas hardliner, was the new leader of the Islamic militant group in the Gaza Strip.

Injured children lie on filing cabinets as an overcrowded North Korean hospital struggles to cope without enough beds or medicine for hundreds of victims from last week's train explosion.

The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of the unknown woman with the enigmatic smile, is sparking a new kind of mystery: What is causing the Renaissance masterpiece to deteriorate so quickly?

Eighty years after British climbers George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine vanished on Mt Everest, a search party is seeking a camera that could verify whether the pair was the first to reach the summit of the world's highest peak.