Three child suicide bombers have set off explosions in north-eastern Nigeria that killed six other people and left another 24 injured.

Nigerian troops have retaken a north east town and several villages from Boko Haram, President Goodluck Jonathan has said.

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

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.