Surrender About 4,000 Taliban troops have given themselves up to the opposition Northern Alliance, it's been claimed. Lomu pledge Jonah Lomu will travel with the All Blacks if they tour the UK and Argentina, his manager Phil Kingsley-Jones said. A member of the Hamas militant group died when a car bomb exploded in the West Bank. There is no threat of a US depression, a leading economist has claimed. Rock giants Mick Jagger and Sir Paul McCartney are to perform on stage together for the first time in nearly 40 years.
Tour doubts England's winter cricket tour of India has been plunged into doubt.
Hawaii Five-O is set for a big screen remake. Tory peer quits Biographer Lord Skidelsky has quit the Conservatives after condemning the party as hysterical, embittered and xenophobic. Professor Stephen Hawking warned today the human race wouldn't survive the next 1,000 years unless it sets up space colonies. A German football coach has caused an outcry after comparing his players to prostitutes following a defeat. An Asian student suffered a catalogue of injuries during a brutal street attack involving two Leeds footballers, a court was told today.