LONDON - A BRITISH court jailed two men on Wednesday for conspiring to attend a terrorist training camp, a day after they were cleared of helping to plan the July 2005 suicide bombings in London.
WASHINGTON - A TOP US health official told lawmakers that there were 'active efforts' to develop a vaccine against deadly swine flu but warned that it will not be ready before September.
'If everything went great, production could lead to availability as early as September,' Anne Schuchat, acting deputy director for science and program (yes, that's what it says) at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
KABUL - A TOP Taleban commander warned Wednesday that militants would unleash a wave of ambushes, roadside bombs and suicide attacks in a new spring offensive. In a possible harbinger of coming violence, coalition and Afghan troops killed 42 militants in three operations, officials said.
AMMAN - A COURT on Wednesday halved the jail term of a Syrian man who strangled to death his Jordanian wife he suspected of having had an affair with a friend, a judicial official said.
The criminal court initially jailed the 29-year-old man to 15 years with hard labour for killing the 26-year-old in 2006 in Amman, but immediately reduced it to seven-and-a-half years.
