A husband who launched a US Muslim TV network has been jailed for 25 years for beheading his wife after she tried to divorce him.

When expectant Palestinian mother Safra Hassan went into labour this morning, she told her husband, Rafiq, she wanted to call the child Yasser, after Yasser Arafat.

Surviving members of an Iraqi family whose van was riddled with bullets by US troops said they were heading for Allied lines because they thought an air-dropped leaflet had advised them to flee their home.