A retired businessman in the UK has lost his High Court battle against extradition to the US where he faces charges of conspiring to sell parts for Iranian missiles.

A Rwandan rebel was today convicted of the murder of four tourists from Britain who were on a gorilla-watching trip nearly seven years ago.

A judge today said he would rule on January 9 in the trial of a Rwandan rebel accused of killing four British tourists and their guide in a famed Ugandan gorilla reserve.

A man accused of being one of the chief architects of the Rwandan genocide is to appear before a UN tribunal today in Arusha, Tanzania.