A nearly-70ft dock torn from a fishing port in northern Japan during the tsunami drifted thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean and floated ashore on an Oregon beach.

A SCANDAL involving sex, drugs and offshore oil drilling has emerged.

Australia’s leader defended his verbal attack on US presidential candidate Barak Obama today, after American politicians condemned it as interfering and Australian critics said it could harm the two countries’ ties.

United States senators on an intelligence panel are seeking to declassify more information from two Senate reports on prewar intelligence on Iraq, saying too much was kept secret.

THE woman soldier at the centre of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal was photographed having sex with other military guards, sometimes in front of detainees, US senators said yesterday.

A female soldier at the centre of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal was photographed having sex with other military guards, sometimes in front of detainees, senators said today.

The US government has awarded an American company a contract that could be worth €620m to help rebuild Iraq’s power, water and sewage systems and repair airports and a seaport.

US OFFICIALS are seeing signs of renewed control

US officials are seeing signs of renewed control by Baghdad over military and security forces in Iraq, but said they don’t know whether it is coming from Saddam Hussein or his senior chiefs.