As Bangladesh reels from the deaths of hundreds of garment workers in a building collapse, the refusal of global retailers to pay for nationwide factory inspections is bringing scrutiny to an industry that has profited from a country notorious for its hazardous workplaces and subsistence-level wages.

A wave of bombings killed 18 Iraqis across several cities this morning, shattering weeks of calm in a reminder of the nation’s continued insurgency.

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A gang of 11 men plied girls as young as 13 with drink and drugs so they could “pass them around” and use them for sex, a court heard.

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Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi hit back at rebels in Tripoli today launching repeated attacks on the sprawling government compound captured a day earlier.

TWO protesters died and four were injured as Afghans protested for a third day yesterday against a plan by an American pastor to burn copies of the Islamic holy book, despite his decision to call off the action.

Two protesters have died and four were injured as Afghans protested for a third day against a plan by an American pastor to burn copies of the Islamic holy book, despite his decision to call off the action.

A ferry packed with people going home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 30 dead and scores missing, authorities said today.

GUNMEN kidnapped a French aid worker in Kabul yesterday and killed an intelligence agency employee who tried to intervene.

CONFIDENTIAL Garda files show about 100 gardaí were put on duty for a surprise landing of General Idi Amin in Ireland.

A soldier was killed in Afghanistan when an explosion struck a patrol of Nato-led troops, the alliance said in a statement.

Two car bombs detonated in a Baghdad neighbourhood today, killing at least eight people.

LITTLE Amin Mahmoud was running rings around the doctors and nurses in the new children’s transitional care unit in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin yesterday.

Five British al-Qaida terrorists jailed for life today were told they had "betrayed their country".

A British al-Qaida cell was facing massive jail sentences today for plotting a bombing campaign against the UK to rival the 9/11 terror attacks.

Oscar winner Forest Whitaker was so intense as ruthless Ugandan leader Idi Amin in movie The Last King of Scotland he terrified his castmates and friends.

Dame Helen Mirren was queen of the Baftas tonight – winning best actress for her role as the monarch – while her movie was crowned best film.

Forest Whitaker threw himself so deep into his role as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in movie The Last King of Scotland that even his wife and children refused to talk to him.

Like great painters, tyrants and dictators often make for fascinating screen portraits and here that fine, if often under-rated, actor Whitaker turns in a powerful performance as Uganda's twisted leader Idi Amin.

Forest Whitaker has hit out at suggestions his portrayal of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was too 'attractive', insisting it's important the leader's charisma was captured onscreen.

Prosecutors say a 29-year-old US man travelling with his mother desperately did not want her to know he had packed a sexual aid for their trip to Turkey.

Heavily-armed attackers rampaged through an open air market today in a tense, religiously mixed community south of Baghdad, killing 15 people and wounding 25.

A MEMBER of a British terror cell with alleged links to al-Qaida was involved in a plot to buy a radioactive bomb, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

Saddam Hussein’s trial resumed today with a new judge after a shake up that raised worries over whether political interference is threatening the tribunal’s independence.

The court trying Saddam Hussein cancelled the resumption of his trial today, delaying the session for five days. The postponement came amid a squabble among judges over a last-minute shake-up in the court, according to judges.

The resumption of Saddam Hussein’s mass murder trial was delayed for several hours today, apparently as the sides wrangled over a last-minute shake-up in the court in which a new chief judge was appointed.

Saddam Hussein’s trial was to resume today, a day after court officials named a new chief judge and ousted another jurist off the five-member panel trying the former Iraqi leader.

A SERIES of bombings rocked war-ravaged Iraq, a day before the trial of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein was set to resume before a new Kurdish judge.

A new judge will take charge temporarily of the tribunal trying Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants in the 1982 massacre of more than 140 Shiites, an Iraqi official said Monday.

The No. 2 judge in the Saddam Hussein trial should not replace the resigning chief judge because of claims he belonged to the once-ruling Baath Party, according to the head of the body working to rid Baathists from Iraqi institutions.

Kidnapped American reporter Jill Carroll appeared in a silent 20-second video aired in Iraq yesterday by Al-Jazeera television, which said her abductors gave the US 72 hours to free female prisoners or she would be killed.

A SHI’ITE lawyer is expected to take charge of Saddam Hussein’s trial for the 1982 massacre of over 140 Shiites, a court official said yesterday.

The chief judge who resigned from handling the Saddam Hussein trial is expected to be replaced by his deputy, the top Iraqi investigator in the case said today.

THE chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein has asked to resign.

The chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial has submitted his resignation, a court official said today.

About two dozen gunmen held 35 passengers on a city bus for two hours on a main road in eastern Pakistan today, sparking a shootout with police that left one of the hostage-takers dead and two wounded.

THE trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants was adjourned yesterday until December 21 after a truncated session which the ousted president refused to attend.

A woman testified today from behind a screen, her voice disguised but her weeping still apparent, that she was assaulted and tortured with beatings and electric shocks by Saddam Hussein’s agents.

Saddam Hussein warned the judge in his trial today that he could be held accountable for his actions during the proceedings.

Saddam Hussein’s defence team walked out of the court in Baghdad today after the chief trial judge refused to allow former Attorney General Ramsey Clark to challenge the tribunal’s legitimacy in an address to the session.

One of the five judges in the Saddam Hussein trial has stepped down after learning that one of the defendants may have been involved in the execution of his brother, a court official said today.

A combative Saddam Hussein lashed out today over his treatment by US guards and demanded that the chief judge stand up to American “occupiers and invaders” as his trial for crimes against humanity resumed in a heavily guarded Baghdad court.