North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast, a day after launching three more of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said.

MUAMMAR GADDAFI taunted his Libyan enemies and their Western backers last night as rebel forces battled pockets of loyalists across Tripoli in an urgent quest to find and silence the fugitive strongman.

NATO has intercepted Iranian weapons shipments to Afghan- istan’s Taliban insurgents, providing evidence that Iran is violating international law to aid a group it once considered a bitter enemy, a senior US diplomat said yesterday.