One Saturday eveningrecently, I was hopping off the walls.

Thousands of activists from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party protested throughout the Gaza Strip today, burning abandoned cars, shooting in the air and demanding corrupt party leaders resign in the wake of their devastating election loss to the militant Hamas movement.

Saddam Hussein should be bailed in Europe while he awaits trial, his lawyer said today.

Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz was being questioned today over the fate of Saddam Hussein and the whereabouts of chemical and biological weapons.

Al-Jazeera TV yesterday showed a relatively modest Baghdad home where the Iraqi leader, who had built himself sumptuous palaces, was said to have spent the last days of his rule.