LAST year David Campbell made what might have seemed a disastrous financial decision — particularly for someone with a Masters Degree in Finance — when he sold up all his possessions and went to South Africa to pursue a career in athletics.

Dutch police were laying siege to a house in The Hague today where an unknown number of terrorism suspects were holed up.

Dutch Muslims and Christians called for an end to a cycle of retaliatory vandalism of mosques and churches as slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh was cremated, a week after his killing by a suspected Islamic radical.

Music group EMI today announced that it was cutting 1,500 jobs as part of a shake-up of its manufacturing operations.