Ten suspected terrorists, including a man prosecutors claim is a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, stand trial in Paris today for a foiled plot to bomb the famed Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg on New Year’s Eve 2000.

Four Algerians accused of plotting to bomb a French Christmas market were today jailed for up to 12 years in Germany.

Five Algerians charged with plotting to blow up a French holiday market go on trial in Germany today in a case expected to establish the extent of al-Qaida’s European network.