IRAQI security forces conducted searches at checkpoints in the capital yesterday as authorities investigated the security failure that allowed two truck bombs to strike what was one of Baghdad’s safest areas and kill 155 people.

ANGRY Chinese yesterday demanded to know why so many schools collapsed during the Sichuan earthquake.

Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed, arrived back in Britain today and declared: “I never imagined this would happen. I am just an ordinary primary school teacher.”

Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed, arrived back in Britain today after receiving a presidential pardon.

A British teacher has been charged by Sudanese authorities with insulting religion and inciting hatred, it was confirmed today.

Burmese authorities turned away students from universities today, suspending classes just days after they arrested pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and closed her party’s offices.

The Harry Potter series and George Orwell’s Animal Farm are among 26 books that have been banned from schools in the United Arab Emirates.