Today's other stories in brief
Three suicide bombers die in Casablanca
CASABLANCA - Three suspected suicide bombers have blown themselves up following a police raid on a house in a Casablanca slum in which a fourth man was shot dead, according to police sources.
Two men had been on the run since yesterday's dawn raid in Fida neighbourhood in which one suspected Islamist militant was killed by police and an accomplice blew himself up after he was trapped on a roof terrace, the sources and witnesses said. - (Reuters)
Rwanda genocide exhibition halted
UN - A UN exhibit on the 13th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide has been delayed after Turkish objections to a mention of the killing of Armenians in
Turkey during the first World War. The photo and text exhibit was scheduled to be opened on Monday.
- ( Reuters)
Turkish hijacker gives himself up
ANKARA - A Turkish man hijacked a commercial passenger aircraft yesterday flying from the mainly
Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir but then gave himself up to the authorities, an Ankara airport official said. - (Reuters)
World Cup baby boom in Germany
BERLIN - Nine months after the World Cup in Germany, maternity hospitals are reporting an 11 per cent rise in bookings and births, writes Derek Scally.
However statisticians say it's too early to say whether the jump is related to the euphoric mood in Germany during the festival or just part of a regular birth pattern. - (Reuters)
Hamas exchange list 'disappoints'
JERUSALEM - The office of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert says ministers have expressed "disappointment and reservation" over a list of prisoners Hamas has demanded freed in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier.
Hamas, which leads the Palestinian government, has handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners it wants Israel to free in exchange for Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit, who has been held by militants in Gaza for 10 months. - (Reuters)