The Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin has today called for an international inquiry to be held into the attack on the United Nation's headquarters in Gaza.

Jude Law travelled and filmed in treacherous areas of eastern Afghanistan to help promote the United Nation’s annual day of worldwide cease-fire and non-violence.

A thundering barrage of mortars shook Liberia’s capital today, hitting two US Embassy compounds and residential neighbourhoods and killing more than 90 people, as government and rebel forces fought over President Charles Taylor’s last stronghold.