Even with a bill of rights, Iraq’s new constitution is primarily based on Islamic codes.

Iraq’s interim constitution says that Islamic law may serve as a source for legislation, though it will not be the law’s main underpinning as some religious conservatives had hoped.A bill of rights similar to that in America guarantees the right to free speech and freedom of religion.

Talks aimed at getting North Korea to stop trying to make nuclear weapons ended on Saturday with no significant breakthrough, but with all sides saying they are prepared to keep talking. The bare bones of a possible deal had emerged on Friday: North Korea would end its military nuclear programme in return for aid from China, Russia and South Korea.