WIKILEAKS’ editor-in-chief claims his organisation doesn’t know who sent it some 91,000 secret US military documents, telling journalists that the website was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.

The Nato-led command stressed that military operations to secure vast areas of Afghanistan would not be delayed by the ouster of its top commander and mounting casualties.

WITH each new look by scientists, the oil spill just keeps looking worse.

A BP executive said today the company expected to be capturing virtually all the oil leaking from the Gulf of Mexico sea bed by early next week.

The cap on the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is capturing half a million gallons a day – anywhere from a third to three quarters of the oil spewing from the bottom of the sea, officials said today.

THE Gulf oil spill has surpassed the Exxon Valdez soill as the worst in US history, according to new estimates released yesterday, but the Coast Guard and BP said an untested procedure to stop it seemed to be working.

The US has begun preparing tents at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba for Haitians migrants in case of a mass migration spurred by the earthquake.

A remote-controlled bomb targeting a police convoy killed 12 people today in western Afghanistan, a day after three American soldiers died in a complex militant ambush in the country’s east.

AS Brazil and France disagreed last night about whether pieces of a downed Air France jet have been found in the Atlantic, investigators used the last messages from the plane to try to avoid future disasters.

President Hamid Karzai pressed America’s top military leader yesterday on the US strategy in Afghanistan as it prepares to pour up to 30,000 more forces into the country.

Divers managed to get inside an upside-down ferry today but found only bodies three days after the vessel capsized with more than 800 people aboard off the coast of the Philippines during a powerful typhoon, officials said.

THE Irish presence is very strong in the US security field — as we are reminded by the recent story that US Central Command chief (covering the Middle East), Adm William J Fallon, is resigning and the acting chief will be Army Lt-Gen Martin Dempsey.

RESCUE teams hunted door to door in New Orleans yesterday searching for survivors, either trapped or hiding out, in the ruined city as 25,000 body bags were readied for a gruesome clean-up operation.

THE commander of Bolivia's armed forces pledged yesterday to safeguard the country's democracy, urging politicians poised to elect a successor to President Carlos Mesa to act "serenely" to end Bolivia's growing political crisis.