Somalia is working with the World Bank on developing a national identity card, he told Reuters.

With a national identity card that had been on Duarte, Brito identified the Caracas officer's corpse.

Britain is to scrap its controversial national identity card scheme within 100 days, it was announced today.

A spokesman for Mr Fergus Glavey warned yesterday that it could eventually become a national identity card.

Photo identification, such as a driving licence, passport or national identity card, will be needed to collect payments.

The national identity card never materialized.

He cited a new technique ensuring that only one genuine national identity card number is associated with each vote.

Scotland Yard had discovered Mr Becker's French national identity card during a July 15th raid on a London apartment.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has insisted the public service card is not and will never become a national identity card.

He says all public servants are required to register for a national identity card by the end of the year.

The British government has succeeded in passing a bill to introduce a national identity card system despite a cross-party revolt.

The office is also responsible for PNG's national identity card project, which the government is pushing as a universal identity document.

Their mission, according to a member of the Venezuela delegation, was to learn the workings of China's national identity card program.

The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr McDowell, has been criticised for failing to introduce a national identity card scheme.

However, vintners' representatives have said a ban on underage drinking is impossible to enforce in the absence of a national identity card scheme.

There were whispers of a national identity card and of using face-recognition software and retinal scans at airports and in other public spaces.