US President George Bush last night said: “I’m the decision-maker” about sending more US troops to the war.

Time magazine’s 2005 Person of the Year may not be a person after all.

One week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, miles-long lines of vehicles crawled into suburban New Orleans today as residents were allowed to return to salvage what was left of their homes. New Orleans’ mayor warned that 10,000 people may have died.

The new US civilian administrator for Iraq arrived today to take over the job of putting the country back together again.