NEW YORK - FREDDIE Mac , the number two US home funding company, is planning to sell a new three-year reference note issue due on March 23, 2012, said a market source familiar with the transaction on Wednesday.

The size of the sale as yet to be determined.

MADRID (Spain) - POLICE say they have arrested a Spanish soldier and his girlfriend for making and distributing videos promoting Islamic jihad, or holy war, and calling for attacks in Spain.

A police statement says the couple were detained on Tuesday in the southern city of Granada have placed at least 11 videos on the internet. The clips have been viewed some 2,000 times.