The much-anticipated Led Zeppelin reunion tour has been put on hold again - frontman Robert Plant has extended his global trek with bluegrass star Alison Krauss.

A man accused of raising money for al-qaida in Iraq and helping to supply foreign fighters for the insurgency there went on trial today in Germany.

A MOROCCAN accused of aiding the German al-Qaida cell in planning the September 11 attacks was involved in the plot from the start, prosecutors alleged at the opening of his trial yesterday.

As the political and financial elite converged at the World Economic Forum in New York, so too has a broad swathe of the world’s protest movements - motivated by calls to lower the cost of Aids drugs, improve the treatment of workers in poor countries and protect the environment.