American actor Sean Penn has visited Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

OSAMA BIN LADEN’s former driver offered the terrorist leader aid and protection that helped make the September 11 attacks possible, prosecutors said yesterday in closing arguments at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.

Hollywood actor Mel Gibson launched a scathing verbal attack on the US war in Iraq during promotion for his new film Apocalypto.

A prominent German neo-Nazi was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison today for leading a terrorist group that discussed attacking the dedication of a Munich synagogue.

President George Bush will host a dinner for one of his leading international critics, French President Jacques Chirac, during a visit to Brussels next month.

THE Government has ruled out reversing its decision to waive flight fees for military aircraft, despite being accused of subsidising the US war in Iraq.

Turkish police have arrested 25 members of an al-Qaida linked group suspected of planning to bomb a Nato summit due to be attended by Tony Blair and George Bush next month.

The United States has created a ”lawless enclave” at a military base in Cuba where more than 600 men from 44 countries are being held without access to American courts, a lawyer for the men told the Supreme Court today.

President Vladimir Putin today dismissed media allegations that Russian intelligence experts had misled him over the US war in Iraq by exaggerating Saddam Hussein’s military capability.

NORTH KOREA yesterday said South Korea should join it in resisting US moves toward war, another angry pronouncement days before highly sensitive talks between Washington and Pyongyang.

An opinion poll published this morning in a Sunday newspaper reveals that a majority are backing Ireland's support of the US war on Iraq because of economic interests.

An American who became a peace activist after her sister was killed in one of the planes hijacked on September 11 is in Baghdad to meet Iraqis who lost loved ones in the 1991 Gulf War.

GUNMEN entered the offices of a Christian welfare organisation in Karachi yesterday, tied office workers to their chairs and shot each of them in the head at close range, killing at least seven.

Pakistani authorities have handed over to the United States a man thought to be the biggest catch yet in the war on terrorism.

Pakistani police have reportedly arrested at least 500 activists from the country’s three leading Islamic organisations in an attempt to prevent further protests against the ongoing US attacks on neighbouring Afghanistan.