Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.

United Nations - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday asked more than 30 top officials to offer their resignation so he can move quickly to take control of the world body’s bureaucracy, aides said.

Opposition parties have criticised the Prison Service after its head admitted not knowing the number of inmates on the run from open jails in England.

It appears the British Government are removing names and web sites from an on line petition calling for further investigation into the events of 9/11, posted on Tony Blair’s’ web site.

The Army Prosecuting Authority (APA) said that charges of battery had a six- month period of limitation and had in this case become inapplicable because the alleged offences, at al-Amarah, took place in April 2004, and did not come to light until February 2006 when the video footage appeared in the media.

No sanction will be imposed on Indonesia’s Makassar Air Force base command chief Commodore Eddy Suyanto for giving inaccurate information on the fate of the Adam Air jetliner which went missing on Monday, a military official said Wednesday.

Three prison officials have been arrested for mocking Saddam Hussein in his last minutes alive and posting a video of his execution on the internet, The Times has learnt.

An Adam Air jet that crashed in a mountainous region of Sulawesi island in the northeast of Indonesia has still not been found.

Twelve people survived when a plane with 102 on board crashed in heavy rain into the mountains of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, officials said after an overnight search for the wreckage of the budget airline jet.

A passenger aircraft with 102 people on board — including 11 children — went missing in Indonesia Monday after sending distress signals, the transport minister said.

The first chief judge who presided over Saddam Hussein’s trial for crimes against humanity has said that the late dictator’s execution by the Iraqi government was illegal.

The tendency to treat Saddam and Iraq in a historical vacuum, and in isolation from the superpowers, however, has hidden from Americans their own culpability in the horror show that has been Iraq for the past few decades.

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location in Baghdad.

Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris.

As he awaits his final hour in a dreary, U.S. military-run prison down the street from one of his former palaces, confusion and secrecy shroud when and how Saddam Hussein will be hanged.