AS anti-war protesters rioted in the cradle of democracy, EU leaders finally rolled back the Iron Curtain yesterday by admitting 10 new members.

VOTERS in Hungary have agreed to be part of the historic eastward expansion of the European Union, strongly endorsing economic unification with their more developed neighbours to the west.

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy said there will be a referendum on joining the EU on April 12.

Floods spread through eastern Germany today, adding to the misery of tens of thousands of people forced from their homes as the country faced its biggest relief effort since the Second World War.

The US Attorney General today said the American arrested on suspicion of plotting to detonate a ‘dirty’ radiological bomb in the US was a key al-Qaida operative who has ‘‘very significant information’’ about the terror network.

Voters turned out in record numbers today in a second round of balloting for Hungary’s next government, with the opposition Socialists hoping to build on their narrow lead to defeat the ruling Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Party.