Sirens have blared, parents grabbed their children and hundreds ran to emergency shelters in Indonesia as countries bordering the Indian Ocean conducted a test today of a warning system set up after the devastating 2004 tsunami.

SADDAM HUSSEIN appears depressed and demoralised in solitary confinement, spending his time writing poetry, tending a garden and reading the Koran, it was claimed yesterday.

Saddam Hussein appears depressed and demoralised in solitary confinement, spending his time writing poetry, tending a garden and reading the Quran, it was claimed today.