KILINOCHCHI (Sri Lanka) - THE leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers is trapped in a small strip of jungle and intends to make a final stand with his surviving forces, an army commander said on Friday.

MUMBAI - AN INDIAN court on Friday ordered the only surviving suspected gunman in the Mumbai attacks to undergo medical tests to determine his age after he claimed to have been a minor at the time of the assault, which would allow him to escape the death penalty.

TAIPEI - ONE tourist from mainland China was killed and five others were injured when a construction crane fell on their bus in Taiwan's capital on Friday, an official said.