The suffering of Zimbabwean children is being forgotten in a stand-off over politics and aid, the UN Children’s Fund said today.

Aid workers in one of history’s largest relief efforts today struggled to get food, water and medicine to survivors of the massive quake and tsunamis that the Red Cross says likely killed more than 100,000 people across Asia and Africa.

Rock star Bob Geldof today criticised Western governments for failing Africa as he headed back to Ethiopia to again highlight the plight of millions of people facing starvation.

James Bond star Roger Moore left hospital today after undergoing surgery to be fitted with a pacemaker.

DESPITE the growing likelihood of a US-led war in Iraq, 14,000 health workers will fan out across the country next week to immunise more than four million children against polio.