Heliborne US and Iraqi troops pressed their sweep through a 100-square-mile section of central Iraq today in a bid to break up a centre of insurgent resistance, the US military said. No casualties were reported on either side.

A WOMAN who allegedly left her two young children home alone for three weeks while she travelled across the country to visit a man she met on the internet has been charged with child endangerment.

US cargo jets failed to drop humanitarian aid over Afghanistan overnight after planners ran into complications.