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President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the target of an X-ray radiation plot during his trip to Rome for the UN food summit, a senior diplomat has sensationally claimed.

"The European Union will accept no Zimbabwean government other than a government led by Morgan Tsvangirai," (pictured, left) a top French politician has boldly stated.

Chris Gelken

It has been a long time coming, especially for the one and a half million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. It is also providing a welcome period of calm for the residents of the small southern Israeli towns of Siderot and Ashkelon.

Human rights campaigners Amnesty International have condemned abuses in Russia including 'extra-judicial killings and kidnappings'. But a legal expert in the former Soviet Union hit back by saying his country did not need what he called unfounded accusations from the outside.

Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius won his appeal yesterday and can now compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that the 21-year-old South African is eligible to race against able-bodied athletes, overturning a ban imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

More than one million homeless people in Myanmar (formerly Burma) are battling to stave off disease and hunger, with the military government still limiting foreign assistance seven days after a massive cyclone.