A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise’s upcoming Mission: Impossible III got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news stand.

A car bomb that destroyed a Baghdad restaurant crowded with New Year’s Eve revellers killed eight people and wounded 35 including one Briton and two Americans, the US military said today.

A car bomb ripped through an elegant Baghdad restaurant crowded with diners at a New Year’s Eve party killing five Iraqis and wounding 35 others, including at least one Briton and two Americans.

THE New York Times yesterday named Bill Keller as executive editor, more than a month after the newspaper’s top editors resigned following a plagiarism scandal.

A NEW YORK TIMES reporter “committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud,” including stealing material from other newspapers, inventing quotes and lying about his whereabouts, according to an investigation conducted by the paper.

The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Rowan Williams, has been elected by the Church of England as its choice to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury, according to a newspaper report published today.