Two cruise missiles struck a residential area in Baghdad today, killing 14 people, Iraqi defence officials said. It was the worst reported instance of civilian deaths since the bombing campaign began a week ago.

A series of explosions and the sound of low-flying aircraft was heard in Baghdad early today, knocking out Iraqi satellite TV’s signal.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks and a senior operative in Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network, was in the hands of US authorities today, after being been captured in a joint raid by CIA and Pakistani agents.

Iraqi aircraft have shot down a US unmanned surveillance drone over the country's southern no-fly zone.

THE shooting down of a US un-manned spy plane yesterday was the latest in a series of hostile acts by the Iraqi regime, American military officials said