An art exhibit featuring deep-fried American flags, complete with peanut oil and black pepper, has been removed by a museum director in the military-friendly town of Clarksville, Tennessee.

“WE got him! US exults,” read the Bangkok Post’s banner headline yesterday.

Saddam Hussein's capture has dominated front pages of newspapers around the world today.

A US soldier was detained yesterday on suspicion of throwing grenades into three tents at a 101st Airborne command centre in Kuwait, killing one fellow serviceman and wounding 13, three of them seriously.