Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark said today he met with deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein yesterday and found him in “very good spirits”.

A photographer at a leading Japanese newspaper was fired today after a cluster bomb he was carrying as a souvenir of the Iraq war exploded at Amman airport, killing a security guard and wounding three others.

A Japanese newspaper president is taking a pay cut after Jordanian prosecutors charged one of his photographers with manslaughter.