UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said today that Iraq is close to civil war as the Bush administration stepped up diplomatic efforts to stabilise the violent country.

Mel Gibson’s apology for making drunken anti-Semitic remarks was not enough to redeem him, actor, producer and director Rob Reiner said today.

US presidential candidate John Kerry has said that a shake-up is needed to end the Bush administration’s mistakes and incompetence over the war in Iraq.

Presidential candidate John Kerry said today the war in Iraq is a failure and that a shake-up is needed to end the Bush administration’s mistakes and incompetence.

Work has started on a Simpsons feature film but fans of the cartoon creations will have to wait years before it hits the big screen, it emerged today.