Piers Morgan spoke of his dream job tonight as he was unveiled as the new host on one of America’s biggest talk shows.

The US military handed over Tariq Aziz and dozens of other members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle to Iraqi authorities who will assume control today of the last American-run detention facility in the country.

Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin “Chemical Ali” was convicted today of crimes against humanity, receiving a death sentence for his involvement in one of the worst poison gas attacks ever against civilians – one of several he faces.

THE invasion of Iraq was of “questionable legitimacy”, Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations at the time of the war said.

The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War nearly two decades ago have been found in Iraq, the US military said today.

Barack Obama said he pressed Iraq's prime minister to make room in his government and security forces for all ethnic and religious groups to prevent a resurgence of the violence and turmoil that took the country to the verge of civil war.

Saddam Hussein’s former foreign minister Tariq Aziz was convicted of crimes against humanity and jailed for 15 years today for the 1992 execution of 42 traders accused of profiteering while Iraq was under UN sanctions.

Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz went on trial today accused of involvement in the murders of dozens of food suppliers.

The Iraqi president today raised objections to the planned execution of Saddam Hussein’s former defence minister, who is due to be hanged with two other former regime officials for their roles in a massacre of Kurds.

TWO former Saddam Hussein aides were removed from a Baghdad courtroom for unruly behaviour yesterday on the second day of a trial over the brutal crushing of a 1991 rebellion in Iraq by Shi’ite Muslims.

Two former Saddam Hussein aides were ejected from a Baghdad courtroom for unruly behaviour today on the second day of a trial over the brutal crushing of a 1991 rebellion in Iraq by Shiite Muslims.

Saddam Hussein’s cousin, known as “Chemical Ali” and 14 others went on trial today on charges of crimes against humanity related to the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War.

Iraq’s prime minister called a crisis conference in a bid to reach open a dialogue tomorrow among Iraq’s divided factions, to shore up his shaky government and unstick the stalled political process.

Saddam Hussein’s cousin known as “Chemical Ali” and 14 other defendants will face charges over the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War next week when Iraq’s third trial against former regime officials gets under way.

The general who will lead Iraqi forces in a security crackdown in Baghdad takes charge today.

The general who will lead Iraqi forces in a security crackdown in Baghdad takes charge tomorrow.

US and Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen firing heavy weapons from concrete high-rises in a Sunni insurgent stronghold north of the heavily fortified Green Zone today. Iraqi’s defense ministry said as many as 30 militants were killed and 27 captured.

Iraq’s prime minister has named an Iraqi general who was taken prisoner of war by US troops during the 1991 Gulf War as the commander of a new security plan that aims to restore stability in Baghdad, military officers said tonight.

Iran is suffering a staggering decline in revenue from its oil exports, and if the trend continues income could virtually disappear by 2015, according to a US report.

The highest court of appeal in Kuwait today overturned the conviction of a former Guantánamo Bay prisoner, acquitting him of terror-related charges, his lawyer said.

A day after Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, the Shiite-dominated government offered a major concession to his Sunni backers that could see thousands of members of the ousted dictator's Baath party reinstated in their jobs.

AMERICA’S top intelligence official took down a government website with captured Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi documents after questions were raised about whether it provided too much information about making atomic bombs.

America’s top intelligence official took down a government website with captured Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi documents, after questions were raised about whether it provided too much information about making atomic bombs.

OIL rose above $63 yesterday on concerns that export cartel OPEC would cut output to halt a 20% slide in prices over the past two months.

Skeletons, many wearing clothes and blindfolded, jut out from the desert sands in south-western Iraq where forensics experts have unearthed at least two mass graves of victims from the brutal suppression of a 1991 Shiite uprising.

The former Iranian president said today that talk of US contingency planning for a military attack on Iran was overblown because such a move would be too dangerous.

Exasperated, besieged by global pressure, Saddam Hussein and top aides searched for ways in the 1990s to prove to the world they had given up banned weapons, according to newly-released documents.

Israelis might have been better off when Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq, Shin Bet’s security chief said, according to a tape recording broadcast in Jerusalem.

Israeli might have been better off when Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq, said Shin Bet security chief Yuval Diskin, according to a tape recording broadcast Monday by Channel 10 TV in Jerusalem.

The remains of 22 bodies were found today in a mass grave south of Najaf dating back apparently to the 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces, police said.

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Hamza al-Zubaidi has died at a US military hospital in Baghdad, an American military spokesman said today.

THERE is no doubt about it: corruption would not have been so rife in the UN-administered oil-for-food programme if there had been diligent management by the UN and its agencies.

The Dublin born former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations has told a jury that he holds the UN responsible for killing many thousands of people, including children, in Iraq through the imposition of sanctions.

An American filmmaker who was imprisoned for nearly two months in Iraq by the US military before being cleared and freed is trying to secure the release of an Iraqi man he met in captivity.

The US is the largest supplier of weapons to developing nations, delivering more than $9.6bn (€7.86bn) in arms to countries including those in the Near East and Asia in 2004, and boosting worldwide sales to those countries to the highest amount since 2000, a congressional study says.

The US Army, in a rare disciplinary act against a four-star officer, said today it relieved Gen Kevin Byrnes of his command in the midst of an investigation into unspecified “personal conduct".

Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as “Chemical Ali,” was one of eight former regime officials to be shown today on a tape released by the Iraqi Special tribunal.

An Iraqi Air Force aircraft crash killed four US Air Force staff and one Iraqi, the American military said today.

An Iraqi Air Force aircraft crash killed four US Air Force staff and one Iraqi, the American military said today.

In his final report, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said yesterday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programmes of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.

The man leading an independent investigation into alleged corruption in the United Nations’ oil-for-food programme said most of the money illegally obtained by Saddam Hussein came from smuggling, much of which the UN Security Council knew about but did not stop.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s son was paid more than €22,900 a year for five years by a company under investigation in the UN’s Iraq oil-for-food programme corruption probe.

FALLUJAH, which came under full-scale attack from US and Iraqi forces yesterday, is a deeply conservative city that has been off limits to foreigners and the military for months.

In a disillusioned Middle East where calls for a change - any change - in the US leadership resonated throughout the run-up to the election, Kuwait is clearly Bush country.