Blue and white Israeli flags fluttered in the afternoon breeze as thousands marched in silence today between two former Nazi death camps in Poland, paying homage to the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Several hundred people joined a handful of exotic dancers in front of the New Jersey Statehouse tonight to protest the US state’s new indoor smoking ban.

A US soldier was detained yesterday on suspicion of throwing grenades into three tents at a 101st Airborne command centre in Kuwait, killing one fellow serviceman and wounding 13, three of them seriously.

One soldier was killed and 13 injured today when grenades exploded at a US 101st Airborne Division command tent in Kuwait. A US soldier was detained as a suspect in the attack, the Army said.