A 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS has gone on trial in Germany accused of murdering a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944.

Police in Egypt today killed the leader of an al-Qaida-inspired militant group who was wanted for last month’s Sinai bombings that killed 21 people.

Estonian police yesterday defused a bomb in the Tallinn apartment of a man who had apparently planned to use it to commit suicide.

Swedish security police said tonight they had arrested a man suspected of being a spy, but did not give any details on the case.

The European Commission said today it will investigate reports that the CIA set up secret jails in eastern Europe to interrogate al-Qaida captives.