US president Donald Trump yesterday lashed out at Iran&s supreme leader for continuing to beat the rhetorical war drum rather than express gratitude for Mr Trump&s decision not to order his assassination at the hands of American and Israeli forces during his country&s 12-day war with Israel this month.

An Israeli strike hit a street in central Gaza on Thursday where witnesses said a crowd of people was getting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit that had confiscated the goods from gangs looting aid convoys. Hospital officials said 18 people were killed.

A sword attacker has been jailed for at least 40 years for the &wicked& murder of schoolboy Daniel Anjorin during a 20-minute rampage.

Almost everything we think we know about Iran is wrong, maintains Bernard Phelan. And he should know & he has travelled there extensively, spending an unwanted 222 days in one of its most notorious prisons, when he was held ‘hostage& by the regime on trumped-up spying charges.