Rescue helicopters were flown in to K2 today after an avalanche left at least nine climbers feared dead.

Rescue efforts resumed today to find at least nine climbers, including an Irish man, feared dead on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, after an avalanche cut ropes used to cross a treacherous wall of ice, officials said.

The FBI has arrested a Florida doctor and New York martial arts expert on al-Qaida-linked terrorism charges.

At least 10 children died today when a bus carrying them on a school excursion crashed on a highway in south-eastern Pakistan, officials said.

Iraq is free of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Saddam Hussein told the UN through his foreign minister tonight.