With cries of God is Great, Sudanese MPs unanimously ratified the government’s peace agreement with the southern rebels today, formally sealing the end to Africa’s longest civil war.

Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi today rejected claims that his country is undermining security in Iraq.

AS THE humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s western Darfur province deepened at the weekend, Development Minister Tom Kitt pledged an additional €3 million in aid for the troubled region.

NEARLY two million Muslims jostled to "stone Satan" yesterday, a day after 251 pilgrims died here carrying out the same ancient ritual, provoking orders from King Fahd to modernise the holy sites of Mecca and Medina where tragedy strikes with terrible regularity.