British hostage Ken Bigley has been killed by his captors in Iraq, Abu Dhabi television reported today.

Indonesia has today welcomed the release of two of its nationals who had been held hostage in Iraq, and reiterated earlier warnings for all its citizens to immediately leave the war-torn country.

REBEL MP George Galloway yesterday said he would stand against Labour as an independent after being thrown out of the party for his outspoken opposition to the war in Iraq.

FORMER Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, who earned the nickname "Comical Ali" during the Iraq war, claimed on Arab television yesterday that he had surrendered to US troops only to be freed.

Kuwaiti television has trumpeted the joy of Iraqis after the fall of Baghdad to US troops, with a presenter saying it is a “slap in the face” to those Arabs who sided with Saddam Hussein.

THREE journalists were killed and at least four were injured in three separate attacks in Baghdad

Four employees of the Reuters news agency were injured today when an American tank apparently fired a shell at Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel, the base for most foreign correspondents covering the war in the Iraqi capital.

The Al-Jazeera television network today said one of its journalists was killed when its Baghdad office was hit during a US bombing campaign.

The al-Jazeera television channel said today that its Baghdad office was hit during a US bombing campaign on the Iraqi capital and that one of its cameramen had been wounded.

Iraqi television last night showed two men said to have been the crew of a US Apache helicopter forced down during heavy fighting in central Iraq.

A top Hamas bombmaker survived an Israeli air strike that was supposed to kill him, an Israeli Cabinet minister admitted today.

IN a carefully planned attack, Palestinian militants dressed as Israeli soldiers ambushed a bus near a Jewish West Bank settlement, then fired on its passengers as they scrambled to escape.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is today visiting British troops in the Middle East - after warning other rogue states they could face the same pounding as Afghanistan’s Taliban regime.