Voters turned out in record numbers today in a second round of balloting for Hungary’s next government, with the opposition Socialists hoping to build on their narrow lead to defeat the ruling Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Party.

One of Osama bin Laden’s half-brothers today spoke of his belief that the world’s most wanted man is still alive.

Churches across Britain were today taking part in a day of prayer for peace and democracy in Burma.

Afghan men thronged their closing embassy in the Saudi capital by the defiant hundreds today, angry and adamant that they would return home to fight a feared US attack.

The leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban regime is refusing to hand over suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden because it would mean ‘‘Islam was finished’’.