Cork's Claire Coughlan added a level par 72 to her opening 71 to lie four shots off the lead at the halfway stage of the LET Final Qualifying School at La Cala Resort in Spain.

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi received a letter from US president George Bush during the highest-level diplomatic meeting in more than 20 years, it was reported.

Abu Nidal, the once-feared terrorist who died mysteriously in Baghdad last month, was not involved in the Lockerbie bombing, his group claimed today.