An Associated Press photographer was released late tonight after a harrowing day in the hands of Palestinian gunmen who abducted him at gunpoint in Gaza - the latest in a string of kidnappings of foreigners in the chaotic area.

Pro-abortion campaigners were mounting a fresh bid today to win women in Northern Ireland greater access to abortion.

Pro-abortion campaigners will tomorrow mount a fresh bid to win women in Northern Ireland greater access to abortion.

US marines performed an abrupt U-turn yesterday and prepared to hand the siege city of Fallujah over to an Iraqi army led by one of Saddam Hussein’s top generals.

US marines announced the end of the bloody, near four-week siege of Fallujah today and will hand the city over to an all-Iraqi force, commanded by one of Saddam Hussein’s generals .

The North's Family Planning Association has lodged an appeal against the results of a judicial review of abortion services carried out earlier this month.

ANTI-ABORTIONISTS in the North won a major victory yesterday after a British High Court judge dismissed a bid to introduce termination guidelines there.

Anti-abortionists won a major victory today after a High Court judge dismissed a bid to introduce termination guidelines in Northern Ireland.

Anti-abortion groups today accused the government of ‘‘cost-cutting’’ and being ‘‘obsessed’’ with abortion after it emerged that women are to be offered faster, easier terminations.

A legal challenge to abortion regulations in Northern Ireland is really a ‘‘radical’’ bid to have British law on termination rights extended to the province, a court heard today.