The leader of Hamas has reportedly said that he would accept a humanitarian truce supported by a relief program for the besieged Gaza Strip.

Pop superstar Robbie Williams has a private jet on standby as he plays a sell-out Dublin concert tonight in case his pregnant wife goes into labour.

International aid agencies mustered everything from anti-snake venom kits to plastic roofing today, warning that a second wave of deaths would follow the Burma cyclone disaster unless the military regime let in more aid quickly.