Israel’s new leader Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to seek “full peace” with the Arab and Muslim world, but refused to utter the words everyone was waiting to hear: “Palestinian state.”

US PRESIDENT George W Bush said yesterday that "many questions" have been raised by allegations of some former American hostages that Iran's president-elect was one of their captors in the late 1970s.

Russia’s armed forces are to get broader powers to strike against suspected terrorists following the Moscow hostage crisis.