A roundup of today's other world stories in brief:
Militants arrested after Delhi shootout
NEW DELHI -Four militants were arrested after a shootout with police in the centre of the Indian capital late yesterday, police said.
Karnal Singh, joint commissioner of the Special Cell, a counter-terrorism unit, said the shootout erupted near Barakhamba road in central New Delhi.
"We got information about the movements of these men and when police officers tried to confront them, there was a shootout ... but we managed to arrest them and there were no injuries," Singh said.
He said the four - a Pakistani national and three Indian nationals from the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir - had admitted to belonging to the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group.
Three kilograms of RDX explosives, four detonators, one timer, six hand grenades and a gun as well as $10,000 (€7,710) and 50,000 Indian rupees (€877) was recovered from the men, Singh said.
- (Reuters)
Basque gang members held
BILBAO -Spanish police yesterday arrested 18 members of Basque street gangs, banned last month as part of the violent separatist movement headed by Eta.
Basque police detained them in the company of members of Batasuna, the political wing of the pro-independence Eta, after a street protest.
- (Reuters)
Ryan O'Neal on assault charge
LOS ANGELES -Actor Ryan O'Neal was arrested and accused of assaulting his grown son with a handgun during a fight in the actor's Malibu home.
Deputies went to Ryan O'Neal's home at 12.30am on Saturday and determined that Griffin O'Neal "had been assaulted by his father, Patrick Ryan O'Neal, during a family dispute," the Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
Ryan O'Neal, 65, was accused of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm.
He was released on a $50,000 bond after five hours in custody.
Terrorist suspects surrender
BERLIN -Two suspected members of a German left-wing militant group which took part in some of the most notorious hostage dramas of the 1970s have surrendered to authorities after 19 years on the run.
Prosecutors in Karlsruhe said yesterday that the two suspected members of the "Revolutionaere Zellen" (RZ), or Revolutionary Cells, had given themselves up in December.
The two were given a conditional release from custody but were likely to be charged with belonging to a terrorist organisation, the spokesman added.
- (Reuters)