TV INTERVIEWER Martin Bashir apologised after he had a “moment of stupidity” and made a “tasteless” comment about Asian women, it emerged yesterday.

Several new variants of a computer worm emerged today to attack corporate networks running the Windows 2000 operating system, just a week after Microsoft Corp. warned of the security flaw.

The judge in the Michael Jackson child-sex case has ruled that arguments over whether the jury could hear evidence of prior sexual offences by the singer would be held in open court.