The world’s foremost gathering of the best and brightest in government and business failed to come up with any new plan to stem, much less reverse, the global financial meltdown today.

UN inspectors have arrived in Iran to visit its uranium enrichment plant, as Western governments and experts expressed dismay and scepticism over Iran’s announcement that it is now enriching uranium on an industrial scale.

Two UN inspectors have arrived in Iran to visit its uranium enrichment plant, the authorities said today as Western governments and experts expressed dismay and scepticism over Iran’s announcement that it is now enriching uranium in industrial quantities.

As part of mock drills, warships participating in a large multinational exercise took off into the Turkish Mediterranean Friday in pursuit of a cargo ship said to be carrying weapons of mass destruction.

BALI had recovered from the earlier attacks. Tourists were coming back in large numbers to enjoy the beauty of the location and the gentleness of its people.

Al-Qaida has more than 18,000 terrorists waiting for the order to attack targets in Europe and the US, preferably with weapons of mass destruction, a leading think-tank said today.

Al-Qaida has more than 18,000 terrorists waiting for the order to attack targets in Europe and the US, preferably with weapons of mass destruction, a leading London think tank said today.

AL-QAIDA leader Osama bin Laden last night voiced solidarity with Iraqis, urging them to carry out suicide attacks against Americans.

BRITISH Foreign Secretary Jack Straw last night launched a withering attack on France and Germany’s call for more weapons inspectors in Iraq, describing it as a “recipe for procrastination and delay”.

FERGUS Finlay believes (Irish Examiner, Jan 21) that Iraq cannot prove it has no weapons of mass destruction.

The key issue in the discovery of 11 warheads in an Iraqi bunker is whether they were intended to be filled with lethal chemical agents or explosives, former UN weapons inspectors said.

TIME is running out for Saddam Hussein to rid his country of weapons of mass destruction or face regime change, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said in a TV interview broadcast yesterday.

SADDAM HUSSEIN could build a nuclear weapon “in a matter of months” if he managed to buy or steal raw materials from outside Iraq, defence analysts warned yesterday.

Saddam Hussein is relying on an army of spies to help him realise his dream of building a nuclear bomb, defence analysts said today.

Iraq has the potential to build a working nuclear bomb within a year, a leading think-tank has warned.

Afghan guerrillas have undermined huge armies time and again, but the Taliban and its long-staying guest, Osama bin Laden, face big troubles if they take to the hills of southern Afghanistan to wage a guerrilla war.

The terrorist attacks on the US have ushered in a new era for international relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said today.