CAIRO - EGYPTIAN security forces have arrested 26 suspected Al-Qaeda loyalists on charges of plotting attacks on foreign ships passing through the Suez Canal, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
ANKARA - TURKEY'S Industry Minister urged Turks on Thursday to boycott Chinese goods in protest at ethnic violence in China's Xinjiang, but a spokeswoman said this was the minister's personal view and not government policy.
LONDON - A TEACHER at a school in Nottinghamshire has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a teenage pupil and assaulting two other children, police said on Thursday.
L'AQUILA (Italy) - THE world's biggest economies agreed to try to limit global warming to a two-degree temperature hike on Thursday as the major developing economies confronted the world's richest at the G8 summit.
