IRAQ is amassing a huge budget surplus of soaring oil export revenues, but is spending little on reconstruction, for which the United States is bearing the financial burden, a US government report said
HUNDREDS of Muslim worshippers today visited a revered Shiite shrine in northern Iraq that is being rebuilt after a deadly bomb blast which triggered bitter sectarian bloodshed
A BRITISH Museum team has found the skeleton of a Canaanite soldier that dates back to 1800 BC in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, the mission`s supervisor said today
ISRAELI Cabinet minister Shaul Mofaz, a contender to succeed the prime minister, denounced his native Iran on today as "the root of all evil" and said its nuclear programme constituted a threat to world peace
Mass murder ... former Liberian president Charles Taylor is accused of war crimes / AP
