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Convicted al-Qaida supporter David Hicks landed in his hometown in a private jet Sunday after more than five years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

U.S. forces broadened their hunt Saturday for three missing comrades beyond the rural area south of Baghdad where they disappeared, and their top commander expressed optimism that at least two of them were still alive a week after their isolated outpost was ambushed.

Clashes between Fatah, Hamas spread; Israel also strikes back after Hamas fires a barrage of rockets.

Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz sought a face-saving agreement yesterday that would allow him to resign under his own terms and escape some blame for the conflict of interest involving his girlfriend's generous pay deal.

Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne, will not be deployed in Iraq because of "a number of specific threats" to his safety, Britain's army commander said yesterday.

Mortar rounds hammered the U.S.-controlled Green Zone for a second day yesterday, killing at least two Iraqis, wounding about 10 more and raising new fears for the safety of workers at the nerve center of the American mission in Iraq.

The U.S. military said yesterday it had detained some people believed to be "directly linked" to Saturday's ambush of two Humvees, in which four U.S. soldiers and their Iraqi translator were killed and three others are missing.