Tony Blair has launched his long awaited Faith Foundation in New York, saying that he wants religion to be seen as a force for good in the world. It will focus on inter-faith understanding and action to fight poverty and disease.

A special bond has been forged between UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Rev Ian Paisley, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) by discussing their common interest in Christianity.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair today attended his last Labour conference church service as leader - and heard a searching sermon about the priority of eliminating injustice and slavery in the word today.

The Labour Party's annual conference in Brighton, which wound up yesterday, was overshadowed by media speculation about Chancellor Gordon Brown's possible accession to the leader's throne, and by the badly timed roughing up of 82-year-old anti-war heckler, Walter Wolfgang.

Tony Blair has said that he believes he will be called to account for the Iraq War before God, and can justify to his 'Maker' decisions which led to hundreds of deaths.