Burma’s rulers have arrested four prominent political activists, the UK-based rights group Amnesty International claims.

There were signs that pro-democracy protests could be weakening in Burma after soldiers and police took control of the streets, firing warning shots to scatter the few demonstrators who ventured out and sealing off Buddhist monasteries.

SOLDIERS, including an army division that took part in the brutal suppression of a 1988 uprising, converged on Burma’s largest city after thousands of monks and sympathisers defied government orders to stay out of politics and protested once again yesterday.

IT IS ironic that a word as cumbersome as tetrahydrogestrinone should be the name of a drug so easy to digest.

Families of those killed when a bomb exploded aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie expressed emotions ranging from rage to scepticism to grudging acceptance of a €2.8bn settlement offer from Libya.

Lennox Lewis insists he has parted company with his long-time manager Frank Maloney on good terms.