Last US troops | Leave Iraq

The last convoy of US troops to leave Iraq has entered Kuwait, nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. Tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4,500 US soldiers have died since the US-led campaign began in 2003. The operation has cost Washington nearly $1 trillion (£643bn)

Pakistan's suppression | genocide

Written by Anthony Mascarenhas, a Pakistani reporter (published in UK's Sunday Times) exposed for the first time the scale of the Pakistan army's brutal campaign and genocide act in breakaway eastern province in 1971.

The Bangladesh government puts the figure at three million.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (published in Sunday Times; told Harold Evans), that the article had shocked her so deeply it had set her "on a campaign of personal diplomacy in the European capitals and Moscow to prepare the ground for India's armed intervention," he recalled. Indians and Bengali guerrillas fought in support of East Pakistan.

To avoid suspicion, Mascarenhas had to return to Pakistan. That time Pakistanis were only allowed one foreign flight a year, he then had to sneak out of the country by himself, crossing by land into Afghanistan.

The day after the family was reunited in their new home in London, the Sunday Times published his article, under the headline "Genocide".

UK Isolated - EU agrees fiscal deal

The UK effectively used its veto to block an attempt, led by the French and Germans.

Today; European leaders say 26 out of 27 EU member states have agreed a tax and budget agreement to tackle the debt crisis of eurozone.

The 17 countries that use the euro have all agreed to the deal; nine other countries have said they will sign up.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said they could not accept the demand of Mr Cameron's (UK Prime Minister) insistence on a protocol allowing London to opt-out on proposed change on financial services.

Europe pushes ahead with fiscal union, UK isolated.