NEW YORK - A NEW YORK rabbi convicted of molesting his daughter has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Monsey rabbi Israel Weingarten was found guilty in March of abusing his daughter through much of her childhood.

BASRA (Iraq) - AN IRAQI police general was assassinated on the street near the oil hub of Basra on Saturday, police said, in a rare instance of violence in the country's third largest city.

A gunman shot dead Hakeem Jassim as he stood in front of his son's shop in the district of Zubair, south of the city centre, a police official told AFP.

LONDON - A GROUP of architects say people should boycott a lecture by Prince Charles in protest at his criticisms of modern design.

In a letter published in Britain's The Guardian newspaper on Saturday, nine architects urged others to shun the talk on Tuesday.