Five women 'are spearheading fresh wave of Eta terror attacks in Spain'
Five women have taken a leading role in the rejuvenated Basque terrorist group Eta, which unleashed a brutal bombing campaign in Spain last week, anti-terrorist police believe. Terrorism experts believe the women are part of a more violent generation than the middle-aged men who killed for Eta for years, but who were willing to countenance a deal with the Spanish state.
The Reverend Harold Good, a Belfast minister who witnessed IRA weapons decommissioning in 2006 and has advised in the Basque peace process, said the arrival of a younger generation of terrorists made peace less likely.
20,000 protest against detention law
RIOT police broke up Malaysia's biggest street protest in nearly two years after around 20,000 demonstrators demanded an end to detention without trial.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Muhammad Sabtu Osman said authorities made 438 arrests
Hundreds of bodies cleared off streets
OFFICIALS in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri yesterday cleared the bodies of hundreds of victims following days of clashes with a radical Islamic sect.
Aliiyu Maikano, northeastern disaster management officer for the Nigerian Red Cross, said the bodies of suspected members of the Boko Haram sect who had tried to flee the military crackdown were still being brought in from outside the city.
Russia warns Georgia it will use force
SOUTH Ossetia accused Georgian forces of firing mortars at the rebel territory yesterday and Russia warned Tbilisi that it reserved the right to use force to defend civilians a year after their five-day war.
Georgia denied any shooting took place, and amid rising tension ahead of the August 7 anniversary of the conflict said the Russian statement suggested "aggressive intent".
Mantel 2/1 favourite for Man Booker
Hilary Mantel is the 2/1 favourite to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction after 95 per cent of all bets were on her novel alone, a bookmakers said yesterday.
William Hill said it had "never seen a betting pattern like it" after a spate of bets highlighted Mantel's Wolf Hall, set during Henry VIII's reign, as "the only one in the running for the punters". Of the three Irish candidates, Colm Toibin is second favourite with William Hill at 2/1, while William Trevor is 12/1 and Ed O'Loughlin is 14/1.
LaGuardia closed by fake bomb scare
THE central terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport was evacuated yesterday morning after a man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, police said. The terminal later reopened.
