For the second time in a day, British and US forces launched precision strikes on Baghdad, leaving its ministry of planning in flames and Saddam Hussein’s loyalists wondering when a promised full-scale blitz would begin.

17-YEAR-OLD Hind Ziad knows painfully well the devastating effects of war in Iraq.

IN a strategy US Defence Department officials are calling “shock and awe,” forces plan to drop 10 times the bombs in the opening days of the air campaign in Iraq than they did in the first Gulf War.

A man who survived a firing squad has testified in court against four former police officers over war crimes charges.

A Croat general, believed to have been indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal, is ready to surrender, Prime Minister Ivica Racan said today.

In a serious blow to Croatia’s new, pro-Western Government, the nationalist party of the late President Franjo Tudjman did much better than expected in yesterday’s local elections, leading in several counties and finishing second in Zagreb, the capital.