Iran has arrested three Finnish men who allegedly strayed into its territorial waters during a fishing trip in the Persian Gulf, Finnish government officials said today.

Rescuers in Nepal said there were no survivors in the wreckage of a helicopter found days after it disappeared while carrying the forestry minister and 23 other people, including foreign officials, aid workers and journalists.

FINNISH authorities said yesterday they had found a suspected case of bird flu in the north of the country.

Finnish police today arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of helping a student who is believed to have set off a bomb at a shopping mall last week, killing himself and six others.