The attacker who killed two British-based US airmen and wounded two others at Frankfurt airport appears to have been motivated by Islamic extremism, say German prosecutors.

Two British-based US airmen were killed and two others wounded when a man armed with a handgun opened fire on them at close range.

KOSOVO police yesterday arrested the central bank governor on suspicion of corruption in an embarrassment for the government just a day after the World Court backed Kosovo’s independence.

Riot police in Kosovo used tear gas and pepper spray today to separate hundreds of ethnic Albanian protesters from rock-throwing Serbs voting in local Serbian elections in the tense, divided town of Mitrovica.

The commander of British peacekeeping troops in Kosovo today said the force could be scaled down without jeopardising its mission.