At least 95 people died and more than 180 were injured when a heavy metal band’s pyrotechnics display on a US nightclub stage went horrifically wrong.

The design of one of the world’s most versatile and celebrated architects, Daniel Libeskind, is expected to be chosen as the replacement for the World Trade Centre buildings, although some of its central features are likely to be either radically altered or left out.

A British former SAS man is flying a helicopter gunship for the Ivory Coast government, one of six foreign mercenaries from a group of at least 50 recruited by a Saudi Arabian diamond speculator in September.

Australia’s World Cup stars were ”shocked and disappointed” to hear about Shane Warne’s 12-month ban for a doping violation having hoped he might return to rejoin them, captain Ricky Ponting said on Saturday.

Rebel and government representatives of the Democratic Republic of Congo are concerned that they are still wrestling with issues that should already have been nailed down. The belligerents continue to argue about virtually everything except that things need to move faster

Government leaders have gone on the offensive against Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change, accusing it of being made up of ”crybabies” and warning it against becoming a ”fight-back opposition”