PARIS, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - French prosecutors have sent 11 young Kurds for trial over a series of fire bomb attacks on Turkish targets in France that injured several people, some seriously, sources close to the case said Tuesday.

HELSINKI, June 6, 2008 (AFP) - Finnish police said Friday they had released four people arrested on Tuesday in a probe into whether defence company Patria bribed officials to win deals in Egypt and Slovenia.

The company sold artillery production technology to Egypt and armoured vehicles and mortars to Slovenia and has pleaded its innocence.

GENEVA, June 4, 2008 (AFP) - The UN's special rapporteur on judicial independence called Wednesday for the UN to launch an inquiry into the bombing of its Baghdad headquarters in 2003 that killed the world body's top envoy to Iraq.

HELSINKI, June 3, 2008 (AFP) - Finnish police said Tuesday they had arrested four people in an probe into whether defence company Patria bribed officials to win deals in Egypt and Slovenia.

The company sold artillery production technology to Egypt and armoured vehicles and mortars to Slovenia.

HELSINKI, May 14, 2008 (AFP) - Finnish police said Wednesday they had arrested two people as part of an investigation into whether defence company Patria bribed officials to win contracts in Egypt and Slovenia.

The company sold artillery production technology to Egypt and armoured vehicles and mortars to Slovenia.

JERUSALEM, May 11, 2008 (AFP) - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on Sunday demanded an Israeli army inquiry into the death of a mother of six during an Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip last week.

LONDON, May 10, 2008 (AFP) - A Filipino man whose wife died after an epidural drug was mistakenly fed into her arm via an intravenous drip after childbirth has lost his fight to remain in Britain, the BBC said on its website.

LONDON, May 9, 2008 (AFP) - Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, will not be formally investigated for perjury after claims that he did not tell the whole truth at the coroner's inquest into her death, police said Friday.

DUBLIN, May 7, 2008 (AFP) - Ireland's justice minister condemned the behaviour of police in the northwest of the country in the 1990s as 'disgraceful' Wednesday, after they were slammed in three official reports.

The abuse was uncovered by former High Court president Justice Frederick Morris, who has been probing allegations of corruption in the 12,500-strong force since 2002.

JERUSALEM, May 2, 2008 (AFP) - A military inquiry into the deaths of a Gaza woman and her four children claimed on Friday they were killed by the explosion of ammunition carried by militants targeted by an Israeli missile.