An American who was jailed for illegally crossing the border into North Korea was released after a visit to the Communist country by former US President Jimmy Carter.

North Korea said it detained an American man for illegally entering the country from China, the second arrest of a US citizen it reported in the past few weeks.

North Korean border guards detained an American missionary as soon as he walked into the communist nation in a bid to draw attention to Pyongyang’s human rights abuses, an activist said today.

A FATHER who stabbed to death two of his young daughters and his former partner in a jealous rage inflicted more than 100 stab wounds on them before killing himself, an inquest heard yesterday.

NASA is preparing to launch a laboratory for the international space station.