SOME might call it bare-faced cheek, but two of Ireland’s most spectacular beaches feature in a US guide to the Top 100 Places to Get Naked.

David Gest banned his estranged wife Liza Minnelli from talking to her own sister for two years, it was claimed today.

A CAR exploded in an apparent suicide attack at a special operations checkpoint in western Iraq killing three coalition soldiers, a pregnant woman and the car’s driver, the US Central Command said yesterday.

The Iraqi National Congress (INC): Founded in 1992 as an umbrella group for other exiled opposition groups, the INC has since faced claims it acts unilaterally as its own party.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush yesterday warned the Iraqi military they would be prosecuted as war criminals if they used weapons of mass destruction on US troops or their own people.

United Nations inspectors were getting down to work today after their four-year absence, meeting Iraqi officials and making plans to once again start searching for hidden chemical, nuclear and biological weapons.

The draw has been made for Wimbledon - and men's top seed Lleyton Hewitt will face Jonas Bjorkman in the first round of Wimbledon.

Saddam Hussein says his country opposes any US attack on Iran.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his senior aides discussed a general mobilisation of the country to face the prospect of a US strike, the official Iraqi News Agency reported.

A US-British airstrike on a football field in northern Iraq has killed 11 people and injured 11, Iraqi authorities have claimed.

We are receiving reports from Iraqi news agency INA that 23 people have been killed in air attacks on Northern Iraq.

US warplanes intercepted an Iraqi civilian plane on a flight from Baghdad to Basra, a senior Iraqi official claimed today.

The Iraqi government says US and British warplanes have bombed targets in southern Iraq, causing no casualties.