US President George Bush has rebuffed recommendations from a growing number of retired generals that he replace Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. “He has my full support,” said Bush.

US President George Bush today vowed to remember the “days of sorrow” following the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean a year earlier and killed more than 200,000 people.

THE Pentagon mobilised 15,000 fresh troops for duty in Iraq as the US military announced yesterday it had found large caches of weapons, including missiles, near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell today urged the international community to fulfil its “solemn responsibility” to disarm Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein of his weapons of mass destruction.

President George W Bush today condemned suicide bomber attacks in Israel ahead of an emergency meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

President George W Bush said today he knew many Americans were anxious about the threat of more terrorist attacks. But he said people should be assured that "the country is alert and the great power of the American nation will be felt".

US Vice-President Dick Cheney has had a special pacemaker implanted in his chest.