Many of the prisoners in a Honduran jail where fire killed more than 350 inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to a Honduran government report.

The government of Chile is asking men to not to wear ties during the coming summer months.

THOUSANDS more troops were deployed across quake-hit Chile yesterday as residents took up arms to stop a wave of mass looting in the nation’s second city, slapped with an 18-hour curfew.

The Government of Chile will present a replica sculpture of an "Easter Island Moai" to the City of Dublin at a ceremony at 11am tomorrow.

The FBI believes an anthrax-laced letter to US Senator Patrick Leahy, belatedly found last week, was written by the same person who sent a tainted letter to Senator Tom Daschle last month.