A bright orange banana that looks like a carrot could soon be helping to save the sight of children lacking vitamin A, it was reported today.

The UN General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that Israel halt threats to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat but also condemning suicide bombings by Palestinians.

Tropical storm Chataan killed four people today as it struck along the coastline of northern Japan, burying an elderly man in a landslide and sweeping away a woman and her house in a flash flood.