Francie Molloy, a Deputy Speaker of the Northern Assembly, has been named in the House of Commons by a DUP MP as an ex-British agent suspected of involvement in the murder of a former RUC reservist.

The Irish Government today faced further calls to rejoin the Commonwealth.

A majority of Iraqi politicians have signed draft legislation that calls for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.

Veteran unionist politician Jim Wilson is to bow out of the Stormont Assembly at the next election, he announced tonight.

Northern Secretary Secretary Peter Hain was today accused of treating the recalled Stormont Assembly as his own personal puppet show.

Insurgents assassinated a Kurdish member of parliament and police found 20 bodies shot to death and dumped in the Tigris River 50 miles north of the capital, where there was no major violence for the first time in five days.

Fiji’s vice president was sentenced to four years in prison today for his role in a 2000 coup that ousted the first ethnic Indian prime minister in the South Pacific islands nation.

Opposition parties stalled work in India’s Parliament today, demanding the resignation of Gujarat state’s chief minister for failing to stop the recent bloodshed between Hindus and Muslims.

A DUP Assembly member was threatened with suspension from the Assembly today after he addressed Education Minister Martin McGuinness as ‘‘the Commander’’.