A teenage girl was plucked from the ocean today, the only apparent survivor from an airliner crash that killed 152 people.

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Darfur human rights activist Mossaad Mohamed Ali were today named winners of the Olof Palme Prize for 2006 for their work to protect human rights, peace and security.

Army troops in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott took control of the national radio and television station and deployed around other strategic buildings while the desert nation’s president was in Saudi Arabia today, witnesses said.

DUBLINER Ben Dunne may have found an opponent to take him the distance for his seventh professional fight at Mohegan Sun, Mashentucket, Connecticut, tonight when he will face Terrell Hargrove who boxes out of Mohamed Ali’s old gym in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Lockerbie bomber told his mother not to worry about him during his last phone call home before beginning his life sentence, it was reported today.