A radical Islamic group that recruited youngsters to fight in Syria was a terrorist organisation that wanted to violently overthrow democracy and replace it with strict sharia law, a Belgian court has ruled.

A court in Paris has convicted and sentenced two Islamic militants to life in prison for their roles in a 1995 campaign of bombings of the Paris Metro that killed eight and wounded more than 200.

A man suspected of phoning a senior aide to Osama bin Laden was arrested in Bosnia today.