Taliban leaders threw the hanged corpse of an Afghan opposition leader into a hasty grave in Taliban territory today, leaving Afghanistan’s opposition in exile to mourn - and vow revenge - without him.

Turkey is ‘‘pivotal’’ in the reconstruction of Afghanistan following the military strikes against the country’s Taliban regime, The British foreign secretary Jack Straw said today.

United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson today expressed her deep concern about attacks on Afghanistan.

The FBI has said there may be additional terrorist attacks inside the United States or abroad in the next few days.

A senior American diplomat today warned that the United States might attack other countries in its war against terrorism.

Too many concessions have been made in the search for peace in Northern Ireland, a British former Labour minister said today as she called for more efforts to be made to track down terrorists in the North.

Fearing widespread starvation in Afghanistan if America attacks, the United Nations has sent its first food shipments there since the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The Taliban has denounced Saudi Arabia for severing links with the Afghan rulers, saying the move was "intolerable to all Muslims".

The promised information tying Osama bin Laden to the US terrorist attacks is likely to fit into a chain of evidence formed while prosecuting those involved in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa.