IRAN yesterday rejected a broad package of EU incentives offered if it agreed to abandon all nuclear fuel work.

Police were investigating Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s youngest son after he allegedly injured his pregnant companion and damaged a hotel room in a rampage.

Rescuers were hoping for “individual miracles” of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand today for missing tourists and locals swept away by earthquake-powered tidal waves.

YASSER ARAFAT yesterday dismissed the US veto of a UN resolution against Israel's threats to expel him, saying the step will not "shake us".

France reiterated today that new compensation by Libya for families of victims of a 1989 bombing of a French airliner was an “indispensable condition” for sanctions to be lifted against the North African country.