The Malawian baby Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, are trying to adopt arrived in Britain today on an overnight flight from Johannesburg.

The father of a US contractor believed to have been beheaded in Iraq by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said today he does not see any good coming from al-Zarqawi’s killing.

The father of an American beheaded in Iraq said he holds US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld responsible for his son’s death and called for his resignation.

An American civilian who was beheaded in a grisly video posted on an al-Qaida-linked Web site had been warned to leave Iraq but refused, US officials said today.