The brother of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George Bush says the reporter plans a lawsuit against Iraqi security services for beating him.

HUNDREDS of people, including many children, chanted slogans praising Saddam Hussein as they tossed flowers on to his tomb one year after he was executed.

Hundreds of people, including many children, chanted slogans praising Saddam Hussein as they tossed flowers on to his tomb one year after he was executed.

An Ireland-based Iraqi has claimed to have received and sent out the video showing Saddam Hussein's execution.

Executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was buried shortly before sunrise today inside a compound for religious ceremonies in the town of his birth.

POLITICS, as diverse as they come, dominated the media in Britain yesterday in the wake of an admission by the Liberal Democrat president, that he was homosexual and the “outing” in a different context of George Galloway from a television show.

George Galloway entered the Big Brother house relishing the prospect of airing his political views to millions of viewers.

George Galloway is a dead cert for eviction from Celebrity Big Brother tonight and has been warned to expect ridicule when he returns to Parliament.

TOOLS of torture that Saddam Hussein’s son, Uday, used to punish underperforming Iraqi athletes were displayed yesterday at a Baghdad sports stadium in advance of the Olympic Games next month.

Politics looks set to dominate this year’s Cannes Film Festival with a slew of films about the war in Iraq and the events of September 11.

The football landscape, like its political counterpart, is changing rapidly in Iraq since the fall of Saddam earlier this year. Erik Kirschbaum reports from Baghdad.

A lawyer who claims to have given legal advice to some of the world’s most notorious men today said he was ready to defend Saddam Hussein.

A chronology of the major dates in Saddam’s presidency

Saddam Hussein’s shadow has finally been lifted from the country he ruled with an iron grip for over 20 years.

A CLOSE confidant of Saddam Hussein, whose daughter is the widow of one of the deposed dictator's sons, is believed to be working with an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group to co-ordinate attacks in Iraq.

A man close to Saddam Hussein is believed to be helping co-ordinate attacks on American forces with members of an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group, a senior US defence official said.

US TROOPS scoured a remote region north of Baghdad yesterday in a bid to track down guerrillas loyal to Saddam Hussein as one US soldier was killed and two wounded.

SIX US troops were wounded in attacks in Iraq while US soldiers shot dead five arms sellers and a child at an arms market in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit.

UDAY and Qusay? “The fools, the fools, the have left us our Fedayeen dead. As long as Iraq holds these graves she will never be at peace.”

ALL over Europe, especially in countries which opposed the Iraq war, you can hear gleeful tidings that America and Britain have been badly bitten after their Middle East adventure.

American forces in Iraq continue to close in on Saddam Hussein, conducted several top secret operations since killing his sons Uday and Qusay two weeks ago, the US military said today.

US soldiers raided homes and farmhouses in the hostile Sunni heartland around Baghdad yesterday, detaining dozens of suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists and saying the net was closing on the deposed dictator himself.

Saddam Hussein’s daughters have expressed deep affection for their father in interviews, but said they did not know where he was and that they last saw him a week before the Iraqi war started.

An adviser to the CIA has hinted that US and coalition staff were close to a breakthrough in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

FALLEN Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein mourned the deaths of his sons in a new tape recording sent to an Arab TV station yesterday.

Fallen Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein mourned the deaths of his son sons in a new tape recording sent to a Arab TV station today.

AMERICAN soldiers were attacked in broad daylight in the centre of Baghdad yesterday when a grenade was dropped into their vehicle from a bridge.

American soldiers were attacked in broad daylight in the centre of Baghdad today with witnesses saying two were killed when a grenade was dropped into their vehicle from a bridge.

A stash of Viagra, a condom and £60m (€84.9m) in cash were found with the bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein, it was reported today.

US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz yesterday defended the invasion of Iraq as an example of how the United States had to be prepared to act on “murky intelligence” in its war on terrorism.

US soldiers said they missed catching Saddam Hussein’s security chief — and possibly the former Iraqi president himself — by a mere 24 hours early yesterday.

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein should be brought to trial for his crimes, not killed like his sons Uday and Qusay, the man appointed as Britain’s new envoy to Iraq said today.

A grenade attack killed three US soldiers and wounded four as they guarded a children’s hospital northeast of Baghdad.

US occupation authorities took the apparent gamble of cleaning up the appearance of the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons in a bid to convince sceptical Iraqis that Uday and Qusay are really dead.

US forces, acting on a tip from an informant, have arrested several men believed to be part of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s personal security detachment during a raid south of Tikrit, a senior US military commander said yesterday.

The US-led coalition in Iraq showed off the bullet-riddled corpses of Saddam Hussein’s two sons yesterday, anxious to banish any doubt that the notorious brothers had been killed by US forces.

US doctors cosmetically improved the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons today -their faces reconstructed to appear as lifelike as possible after still photos failed to convince many Iraqis they were really dead.

Americans say Qusay and Uday Hussein each shot more than 20 times during Mosul gun battle.

GUNMEN describing themselves as Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen militia vowed to step up attacks on US forces and their Iraqi collaborators to avenge the killing of his sons Uday and Qusay, in a video aired on Al-Arabiya television yesterday.

THREE American soldiers were killed yesterday when their convoy was hit by gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in northern Iraq, a military spokeswoman said.

Reports of their deaths may be greatly exaggerated. Given the dodgy quality of the information that the Americans and the British have been indoctrinating the rest of the world with, there is still a good chance that Qusay and Uday — not to mention the 14 year-old boy — are alive and well.

GRAPHIC photos of the battered bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons were released by the US yesterday in a bid to convince sceptical Iraqis that the feared brothers were dead.