The interim Honduran government revoked an emergency decree that prohibited large street protests and limited other civil liberties following the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

North Korea has agreed to all US nuclear inspection demands and the Bush administration responded today by removing the communist country from a terrorism blacklist.

Stock markets, political leaders and millions around the world will be on tenterhooks today as the lower house of the US Congress tries again to pass a $700bn (€506bn) rescue package for the nation’s economy.

The US is encouraging Israel to hold “serious talks” with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as an alternative to the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority.

The families of the 270 people killed in the Lockerbie bombing 15 years ago are likely to receive only half the £6m (€8.5m) Libya has agreed to pay each of them.

TWO of television’s marquis journalists were dismissed from high-profile reporting assignments in Iraq yesterday, chastised for allegedly breaking ironclad, if sometimes unspoken rules that govern reporting in the US-led war there.