ATHENS (Greece) - A PRIVACY watchdog has banned Google Inc from gathering detailed, street-level images in Greece for a planned expansion of its panoramic Street View mapping service until the company provides additional privacy safeguards.

In rejecting Google's bid to roam Greek streets with cameras mounted on vehicles, Greece's Data Protection Authority, or DPA, said it wanted clarification from the US Internet company on how it will store and process the original images and safeguard them from privacy abuses.

LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas) - AN EMPTY gasoline tank undergoing repairs exploded on Tuesday at a fuel storage facility in rural Arkansas, killing three workers, authorities said.

The tank had been previously cleaned and workers had entered it to prepare to install new equipment when the explosion occurred just before 1430, Rick Rainey, spokesman for the facility's owner, Houston-based energy company TEPPCO Partners LP.

NEW YORK - A JURY convicted a Lebanese-born Swede on Tuesday of plotting to help Al-Qaeda recruit by trying to set up a weapons-training post in Oregon and distributing terrorist training manuals over the Internet.

The verdict against Oussama Kassir capped a three-week trial that featured the testimony of a US-born Muslim convert who said he tried to create the training camp in Bly, Oregon, in 1999.