Saddam Hussein has urged the Americans to "save your country and leave Iraq" in a letter written in prison to the American people and released yesterday by his lawyers.

"We want to expedite efforts to get infrastructure for the tsunami warning system," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said late Thursday. "I will work with parliament to get the budget."

Michaelle Jean attended the university in 1982. The university said in a statement that she was honoured yesterday for her commitment to "the values of liberty, of dialogue, and of human dignity."