THE UN’s top relief official has warned that the aid shortfall for Pakistan’s earthquake victims has led to a logistical nightmare and made the situation worse than after the Indian Ocean tsunami last year.

IRAQ prepared to seal itself off from the outside world yesterday and clamp down on movement around the country to ward off threats from insurgents bent on wrecking a referendum on a new constitution.

The senior army officer who was the army’s helicopter observer on Bloody Sunday today said he only had a limited view of events - and that he had lobbied to handle the march differently.

Australia has assumed command from the US of an international naval fleet enforcing sanctions on Iraq in the northern Gulf.