Boy George was arrested on drugs charges early today, nearly 24 hours after calling the police emergency line to report what he said was a burglary in his Manhattan apartment, authorities said.

The former chief of the Iraq oil-for-food programme has resigned – just a day before investigators release a report that is expected to accuse him of taking kickbacks under the $64bn (€51.8bn) humanitarian operation.

US police arrested a man following a bomb scare that emptied a Pennsylvania Station and disrupted train and subway services for around an hour.

The investigation into the US terrorist attacks is being hampered by outdated computers and a lack of translators.