An Italian judge has decided that Premier Silvio Berlusconi will be called to testify in the trial of 26 Americans and several Italians charged with kidnapping a terror suspect during a CIA operation.

Portstewart's Paul Cutler will face Johann López Lázaro of France in the quarter-finals of the Spanish Amateur Championship in Girona tomorrow.

The first trial involving the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme opened in Italy today, without the presence of any of the 26 American defendants accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect.