The United States will hand over Saddam Hussein and all other detainees to Iraq’s new government over the next two weeks as sovereignty is restored, the interim prime minister has said.

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expressed outrage at the unprecedented suicide bombing of its Baghdad headquarters, which killed at least 10 people, and said it was weighing a withdrawal from Iraq.

Six International Red Cross workers, including two foreigners, have been killed in the Goma region of northeastern Congo in the worst single attack on the organisation in five years.