The Pope today urged the world to prevent terrorists from getting their hands on weapons of mass destruction.

Osama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, al-Qaida announced today.

The foreign ministers of Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed today to increase cooperation after meeting with Group of Eight counterparts concerned that acrimony between the two neighbours is helping the Taliban inflict mounting losses on NATO troops and Afghan civilians.

About 150,000 people have had to flee their homes in north-west Central African Republic because of fighting in the region, a UN aid group said today.

Ten years after it started broadcasts that shook up Arab and Western leaders, Al-Jazeera today launched an English-language news channel aimed at bringing the Arab take on the news to the rest of the world.

The EU will work closely with the seven nations of the Horn of Africa to defuse regional conflicts and prevent them spreading to other parts of Africa and the Middle East, the union’s development commissioner said in Brussels today.

UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland warned yesterday that the anger on all sides in the Middle East is the greatest he has seen in two decades of trying to help the troubled region make peace.

The United Nations broke with years of protocol and commemorated the 60-year anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, directly linking its own founding with the end of the Holocaust, in some of the strongest language ever.

THIS is the three-year-old Sudanese boy who was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed 115 people.