'Legal custody and physical custody can be two separate things," he added,' Bremer said.
Hashmi murder: Nine sentenced to life imprisonment.
In yet another controversial jibe, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said women in the Islamic world like wearing burqas because it is easier as they do not have to wear makeup.
The former UN chief weapons inspector believes Saddam destroyed all his weapons of mass destruction in 1993.
Rights activists deplore absence of international jurists on panel to try Saddam.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shahnawaz Hussain has proposed that a museum on the life and times of Prophet Muhammad be built in India, home to the second largest Muslim population in the world.
Teams involved in racial incidents should suffer more severe punishment like the docking of league points, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday.
But Bush administration officials said the war would continue.
CIA Director George Tenet has named Charles Duelfer to succeed David Kay to lead the search for WMD in Iraq.
Former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar has named the best ever batsman he ever bowled in a chat show 'The Sportsman' with former captain Wasim Akram. Shoaib, one of the fastest bowlers to have ever played the game, says his former teammate and captain Inzamam-ul-Haq played him better than any other batsman he bowled to during his career.
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan was number 36 on the US list of most wanted officials of the Saddam regime in Iraq.
The first glimpse of Saddam Hussein's life in prison was provided in London's The Guardian newspaper on Monday.
Quoting unnamed senior administration officials, CBS News and CNN said the new set of sanctions is likely to target the Russian intelligence agency and its official.
'Saddam is looking for his honour, revenge and prestige. If need be he will die like Hitler in a bunker,' says Lt Gen [retd] Kirpal Singh Randhawa, who trained Iraqi officers in the 1970s.
A Shia leader who was the main target of the suicide bomber was not in office when the blast occurred.
Tightening its noose around the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the United States has added its affiliates, including the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, to its list of designated terror organisations and slapped sanctions against two Pakistan-based LeT leaders.
Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi declined to confirm whether Saddam would be among those to be tried from next week.
Former France winger David Ginola has abandoned his bid to stand in the FIFA presidential elections after failing to secure the five FA nominations needed, he said on Friday.
If confirmed by the senate, John Negroponte would head what might become the largest US embassy in the world in terms of manpower.
The government had appealed the grant of bail by high court to four accused in the Godhra carnage.
Key developments and reaction when world football's governing body FIFA elected Gianni Infantino as new president and voted in a series of reforms at its congress on Friday
Factbox explaining how the voting system will work at the FIFA presidential election on Friday.
India is negotiating a term contract with the new administration in Baghdad to import Iraqi crude even as it hopes to keep the exploration acreage awarded to it by the Saddam Hussein regime.
The team of weapons inspectors sent in by Washington and London at the end of the war to comb Iraq has admitted in its final report that there were no stockpiles.
FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has signed an amended version of an Amnesty International pledge to end human rights abuses and corruption in the sport should he win election to soccer's top job later this month.
'A day before the concert, my friend and I were loitering on stage admiring its grandness.' 'Suddenly, we realised there were some people on stage.' 'It came as a shock when we realise that it was Chris Martin and Sachin Tendulkar.' 'We went numb.'
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