An evangelical preacher who sparked controversy in the North when he said he did not trust Muslims has apologised for any distress he might have caused.

SWITZERLAND voted yesterday to impose a blanket ban on the building of minarets across the country, backing an initiative by far-right politicians.

The sister of Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan, who was taken hostage and killed in Iraq, has called on the Muslim community to demand the return of her body in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s death.

DISTRAUGHT and exhausted crowds offered prayers and laid flowers at a common grave in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica yesterday, marking the worst civilian massacre in Europe since the Second World War.