Libyan rebels pressing to break a two-month siege in Misrata said they had captured the local airport and pushed Muammar Gaddafi’s forces ever further from the port city’s western outskirts.

A DEFIANT Roman Polanski yesterday vowed to fight US attempts to extradite him from a Swiss jail cell to be sentenced for having sex with an underage girl 32 years ago.

The international tug-of-war over Roman Polanski escalated today as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free the 76-year-old director on bail.

Poland and the the US today sealed a controversial deal to build an American missile base in the country.

Poland has agreed in principle to allow the US to install a missile defence system on its soil.

Poland’s Interior Minister Ludwik Dorn resigned today, becoming the second member of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s Cabinet to hand in his portfolio this week.