LONDON - BRITISH police said Friday they are investigating an allegation of torture against the country's MI6 foreign spy agency.

The case involves an unidentified non-British national, and is not related to the torture of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, which police are already probing.

LONDON - THE London council lambasted for its handling of the Baby P case was criticised on Friday for placing a foster child in a house where the ringleader of the plot to blow up transatlantic airliners lived.

Haringey Council put the child into the care of relatives who lived in the same house as Abdulla Ahmed Ali, found guilty on Monday of plotting to destroy planes in mid-air using bombs made from liquid explosives.

KIRYAT SHMONA (Israel) - REMNANTS of a Katyusha rocket were found in northern Israel on Friday, police said, after a security official said two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon.