PAKISTANI troops fought a fierce battle with tribesmen and suspected Taleban and al-Qaeda fugitives yesterday along the country?s border with Afghanistan in a fire-fight that left at least 30 people dead.
Meanwhile, Pakistan?s foreign minister yesterday said he was certain bin Laden was not in his country but was more likely to be in Afghanistan.
"The reason why I said he could not be in Pakistan is because we have these 70,000 paramilitary forces patrolling the border. We have virtually sealed the border," said Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat.

Haiti's new prime minister worked to build a unity government Tuesday, and with 11 of 13 ministers reportedly chosen, none was from ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Family party.

The "al-Qaedization" of terrorism in Europe is a political "big bang".
Social paranoia inevitably will be on the rise - and the main victims are bound to be millions of European Muslims. Racist political parties like Jean Marie le Pen's National Front in France and Umberto Bossi's Northern League in Italy will pump up the volume of their extremely vicious anti-Islamic xenophobia.

An expert in child pornography who lectured the Metropolitan Police on how to protect children was jailed for seven years today for subjecting three young girls to "systematic sexual abuse"

Anybody who has received a blood transfusion in the past two decades will not be allowed to give blood in the future because of the risk of spread of the human form of BSE, the health secretary, John Reid, announced yesterday.