ENGLAND:

“I suppose he was my brother in many ways.”

The acclaimed folk musician Tommy Makem has died in the United States at the age of 74.

New DNA testing has identified human remains recovered years ago from the World Trade Center wreckage to be those of a flight attendant and passenger from American Airlines Flight 11, the first hijacked plane to crash into a tower on September 11, 2001.

DEMOCRATIC presidential hopeful John Kerry yesterday accused President Bush of committing "one of the greatest blunders" of his administration in failing to secure hundreds of tons of explosives that have been stolen in Iraq.