Actor George Clooney and his father have been arrested at a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.

The British teacher facing 40 lashes for naming a teddy bear Mohammed was reported to police by an office worker at her Sudan school, it emerged today.

A Sudanese Darfur rebel faction has demanded that the African Union (AU) extend its deadline for the concluding peace talks, as Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo pressured the warring sides to sign a proposed deal.

Al-Qaida in Iraq today claimed to have kidnapped five employees of the Sudanese Embassy in Baghdad and threatened to kill them unless Sudan removes its diplomatic mission from Iraq.

Saddam Hussein’s lawyer blamed US-led “occupation forces” today for the killing of a second colleague in the trial and urged Arab leaders to “shoulder their responsibility” to combat disorder here that threatens the proceeding.