Latest: The Trump administration says it is withdrawing from a treaty that has been a centrepiece of superpower arms control since the Cold War, in a move some analysts claim could fuel a new arms race.

Mark Zuckerberg wants to put a lot more “book” into Facebook.

The Islamic State’s staggering successes come at a cost. After all, it’s not cheap to wage war and manage territorial conquests whose population is now roughly the size of Austria’s.

CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel returns from a two-week break to the front line of the debt crisis amid a clamour over the conduct of Germany’s president that threatens to damage her own standing and detract from her efforts to defend the euro.

THE UN nuclear watchdog is expected this week to issue its most detailed report yet on research in Iran seen as geared to developing atomic bombs, heightening international suspicions of Tehran’s agenda and stoking Middle East tensions.

Reconciliation talks between Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy and the Shiite opposition have started for the first time since anti-government protests erupted in the Gulf kingdom, an opposition figure said.

Yemen’s chaos deepened when munitions factory looters set off an accidental explosion that killed at least 78 in an area seized by Islamist militants exploiting the president’s rapidly dwindling power.

Japanese nuclear experts were struggling to control three damaged reactors amid fears they could go into meltdown tonight.

An explosion at a nuclear power plant on Japan's devastated coast destroyed a building today and made leaking radiation the central threat menacing a nation just beginning to grasp the scale of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.

RUSSIA insisted yesterday its nuclear arsenal is secure, angrily rejecting US allegations that tens of thousands of aging Soviet weapons may not be fully accounted for.

RUSSIAN soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the violence that ended the school siege and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed local people, it was claimed yesterday.

Toppling Saddam Hussein could send his weapons tumbling into rogue hands and make it even harder to combat global terrorism, analysts warned today.

US President George W Bush intends to make deep reductions in nuclear weapons, perhaps without negotiating reciprocal cuts by Russia, officials said today.