The US believes Iran is getting closer to developing nuclear arms Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has said Tehran will never give up nuclear technology, as international pressure on his government continues to mount.
He warned of "massive" consequences if Iran was treated unfairly.
Mr Khatami said again that the nuclear programme was peaceful and needed to produce power, rejecting US suspicions that it is a cover for weapons.
EU powers want Tehran to end uranium enrichment - a key part of nuclear arms production - permanently.
"We give our guarantee that we will not produce nuclear weapons because we're against them and do not believe they are a source of power," Mr Khatami told foreign ambassadors in Tehran.
"But we will not give up peaceful nuclear technology," he added.
In Washington, President George W Bush said a nuclear-armed Iran would be "a very destabilising force in the world" and urged the West to work together to stop such an outcome. If we feel others are not meeting their promises, under no circumstances would we be committed to continue fulfilling ours
The message was reinforced by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a tour of Europe this week.
She said Washington had no deadline to refer the issue to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions, adding that diplomacy had to be given every chance to work.
While talks with Germany, France and Britain continue in Geneva, Iran has suspended uranium enrichment, which can be used to make weapons-grade fuel.
But in his speech Mr Khatami said that enrichment was "our clear right" and that Iran had suspended it only "to show our goodwill".
He added: "If we feel others are not meeting their promises, under no circumstances would we be committed to continue fulfilling ours.
"And we will adopt a new policy, the consequences of which are massive and would be the responsibility of those who broke their commitments."
The European countries would like to use a package of incentives to induce Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions, but Tehran has said it is disappointed with what is on offer so far.
It says it can only continue talks for a matter of months, not years.
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West African leaders condemn Togo
Faure was named as president within hours of his father's death An emergency summit of West African leaders has refused to recognise the new leadership of Togo, condemning the transfer of power as a coup.
Regional body Ecowas has threatened to impose sanctions unless Togo returns to its original constitution and starts planning presidential elections.
Faure Gnassingbe, the son of the late president, was installed as leader after the constitution was changed.
He has vowed to organise free and open elections as soon as possible.
Leaders from the 15-member Economic Community of West African States, meeting in Niger, decided the changes in Togo's constitution, aimed at legalising the military appointment of Mr Faure, did not disguise the fact that what had taken place was a coup.
"The heads of states strongly condemn the intervention of the military which resulted in the appointment as president of the son of the deceased president," the group said in a statement.
A high-level delegation plans to go to Togo's capital, Lome, to express their objections in person.
The African Union, whose chairman Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo led the Ecowas summit, has also said it would consider imposing sanctions on Togo unless it restores "constitutional legality". The expectation of many was that [Eyadema's] demise would open up a new chapter in the history of Togo
Ecowas Executive Secretary Excerpts from Faure Gnassingbe's speech Mr Faure, in his first address to the nation, has promised "free and transparent" elections "as soon as possible".
But the BBC's Andrew Simmons says that while he spoke of national assembly elections, Mr Faure did not make any reference to elections for the head of state.
Under the original constitution, presidential elections should be held within two months of a president's death.
However, a constitutional amendment passed on Sunday - the day after Gnassingbe Eyadema's death - allows Mr Faure to serve out his father's term as president until June 2008.
After negotiations with the European Union last year, the late president promised to hold legislative elections under reforms intended to level the electoral playing field.
The EU froze aid to Togo in 1993 over the country's lack of democracy and poor human rights record.
The opposition has rejected Mr Faure's offer of elections, demanding that he step down. LINKS TO MORE AFRICA STORIES
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The pictures will inform any new tsunami warning network ( Image: Royal Navy UK UK scientists have released images of the ocean floor near the epicentre of December's giant Asian earthquake.
They were obtained by the Royal Navy's hydrographic survey ship HMS Scott.
The three-dimensional pictures detail the deformed seabed 150km (94 miles) off the Sumatran coast, and reveal huge underwater landslides.
Researchers involved in the project believe the images may help in the design of the tsunami early warning system to be built in the region.
"There are features which we would think are something like the Grand Canyon would look," Tim Henstock, one of the scientists on board HMS Scott, told BBC News.
"You can see huge piles of mud maybe a few hundred metres thick; there's lots of evidence of activity at the subduction zone."
The images show clearly the boundary between the Indian and Burma tectonic plates - a region known as the Sunda Arc.
The flat Indian plate shows up in purple, which turns to blue as this portion of the Earth's oceanic crust disappears underneath the Burma micro-plate (part of the Eurasian plate). This really was a grey area of seabed; we didn't have any information at all of any quality
Dr Russell Wynn, Southampton Oceanographic Centre The forces created by this process have rumpled and buckled the surface rocks, whose folds show up in green and yellow.
Some images appear to show a large landslide some 100m high and two kilometres in length.
Scientists involved in this project believe the tsunami occurred when a portion of the Burma plate, which had been dragged down by the edge of the descending Indian plate, rebounded upwards, transmitting huge energy to the water above. It is the first time that this area of seabed has been mapped in detail, though project scientists believe that oil companies have conducted surveys here in the past.
Images returned so far reveal that while some portions of this subduction area were obviously involved in the Boxing Day earthquake, others were not.
"The big question at the moment is why the earthquake occurred where it did, and all the aftershocks were then further to the north," Russell Wynn told the BBC News website.
A marine geologist at Southampton Oceanographic Centre, Dr Wynn is processing data sent back to the UK from HMS Scott by scientists on board, such as his Southampton colleague Tim Henstock.
HMS Scott is scheduled to return to the UK in April "The area to the south of the earthquake epicentre seems to be relatively unaffected," he said. "So one of the things this survey will try to understand is why that area was not affected, and is that an area where some time in the future there may be an earthquake?"
This information may prove vital in setting up an early-warning system.
There have recently been disputes between some of the governments involved, principally over where to site the system's co-ordinating centre; but from a scientific perspective, it is much more important to find the right sites for the sensors which will feed information to that centre.
"This really was a grey area of seabed; we didn't have any information at all of any quality," said Dr Wynn.
"So by doing this detailed map we will get an idea of where to site monitoring equipment on the seabed, and that monitoring equipment will then feed into early warning systems that hopefully some time in the future will contribute to saving lives."
For the crew of HMS Scott, this has been a unique mission. The ship's main role is to map areas of the sea floor which might have some military relevance.
The sonar array slung underneath its hull sends out pulses of sound waves, which reflect back from hard surfaces; these reflections can be analysed to produce 3D maps of the ocean floor.
HMS Scott was in the western portion of the Indian Ocean near the coast of Madagascar, sailing northwards, when the magnitude nine earthquake occurred.
Tsunami origin: The quake shook the rocks which disturbed the water column above The UK's Ministry of Defence decided to re-route the vessel eastwards. It docked in Singapore in late January to take on supplies and civilian scientists, from the British Geological Survey and Southampton Oceanography Centre.
After receiving permission from the Indonesian government, HMS Scott then sailed for the earthquake epicentre.
Currently in charge is Lieutenant-Commander Gary Brooks, the ship's Executive Officer.
He told BBC News that his crew knows relatively little about the impacts of the tsunami.
"We've been quite shielded from all this," he said. "We sailed on 27 December, when little news had broken; and being at sea, we have a very closeted life, away from what goes on in the real world, and we haven't seen any of the shocking images.
"We are working some considerable way off the coast, and so we haven't physically seen any devastation or anything else; we're here, we know why we're here, we know what's happened, we know what we're trying to achieve and what we're doing for the future, but we're unaware really of the devastation and the problems that the world has gone through."
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It is believed Ms Peyton was shot outside a hotel A BBC producer has died after being shot while making a series of reports in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Kate Peyton, 39, and reporter Peter Greste had just arrived in the capital Mogadishu when she was hit. Mr Greste was not injured.
Ms Peyton was taken to hospital, where she had an operation on a bullet wound to her back, but died later of internal bleeding, the BBC said.
Head of BBC News Helen Boaden said she would be "greatly missed". I am profoundly shocked and saddened by the news
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"Kate was one of our most experienced and respected Foreign Affairs producers who had worked all over Africa and all over the world.
"She will be greatly missed, both professionally and personally.
"We are in touch with the family and are doing everything we can to support them at this terrible time."
BBC director general Mark Thompson said he was "profoundly shocked and saddened" by Ms Peyton's death.
"Kate had worked for the BBC since 1993 and was dedicated to covering news across the African continent."
The Foreign Office has also paid tribute to Ms Peyton.
"She had travelled with the foreign secretary abroad and was well known to our media staff wherever she went," it said in a statement.
A spokesman for Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed said Ms Peyton's death was "extremely shocking and extremely tragic", the Associated Press reported.
Yusuf Ismail spoke to the news agency from Kenya where the exiled government is currently based.
Details about the incident were still unclear, but the BBC said it was believed to have happened outside the Sahafi Hotel. She was the kindest, gentlest human being to work with and to have as a friend
Ms Peyton, who grew up in Suffolk, had spent the past 10 years in Africa and was based in Johannesburg. She had worked for the BBC as a producer and reporter since 1993.
She also worked as a producer and trainer for the South African Broadcasting Corporation in Johannesburg.
Her friend and colleague BBC correspondent Fergal Keane said Ms Peyton was "the kindest, gentlest human being to work with and to have as a friend and I will always treasure her laughter and stories".
"She devoted a large part of her life in trying to telling the truth about Africa," he added.
The National Union of Journalists, of which Ms Peyton was a member, condemned the killing and called for a "full investigation" into the circumstances.
General secretary Jeremy Dear said: "This dreadful shooting, coming just after the announcement that more journalists were killed last year than in any year before, reminds us just how dangerous reporting has become."
He said one reason for the rising death toll was because "the killers are rarely pursued and brought to justice".
"We will ask the UK government to press the UN as well as the Somali authorities to pursue these killers," he said. LINKS TO MORE UK STORIES
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Rice is on a fence-building mission, correspondents say US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Nato foreign ministers have held their "best" discussion on Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Ms Rice, speaking after the meeting in Brussels, said the alliance was united and knew the work it had to do.
But she said the US still had concerns about the possible lifting of a EU arms embargo against China, and Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is also due to hold talks in Europe.
The secretary of state is nearing the end of an eight-day tour of Europe and the Middle East during which she has sought to soothe tensions with European nations, says BBC Europe correspondent Tim Franks in Brussels.
However, deep differences remain between the two, he says.
Speaking at a news conference with Ms Rice, Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said relations between the US and its European allies over Iraq had "turned a corner" after landmark elections there last month.
After meeting with EU officials and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Ms Rice said the US and EU had "unity of purpose and unity of message" on the issues that mattered.
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But Ms Rice also said that the US and the EU were "still in open discussion" about how to deal with proposals to lift an EU arms embargo on China.
"The United States has very specific concerns," she said, citing China's human rights record and regional stability.
"We do have to worry about the military balance in the region and we have concerns about technology and its transfer," she said.
Ms Rice repeated earlier warnings that Iran "must live up to its international obligations". Proliferation concerns
In a US television interview before she travelled to Brussels, Ms Rice said European countries needed to get tougher with Tehran in negotiations to bring a halt to Iran's nuclear programme.
The UK, France and Germany have offered Iran trade concessions if it gives up its nuclear programme. Iran has agreed to temporarily suspend its uranium enrichment activities as the negotiations continue.
Iran says its nuclear programme is peaceful, but the US claims Iran is on the path to developing nuclear weapons.
Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which prohibits the development of atomic weapons. The United Nations Security Council has the power to impose stringent sanctions on Iran if it is found to be in breach of the treaty.
In Nice, Mr Rumsfeld is expected to call on Nato colleagues to do more for the military effort in Iraq.
Nato said it would contribute 300 personnel for a training mission, but so far there are fewer than 100 on the ground.
The US-led invasion of Iraq during US President George Bush's first term badly strained US ties with Europe.
Some countries, notably France and Germany, said they would have nothing to do with operations in Iraq. Spain initially sent troops but then decided to pull them out after a change of government. LINKS TO MORE MIDDLE EAST STORIES
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A de facto ceasefire was already in operation before the truce Hamas and Islamic Jihad have said they are not bound by the ceasefire agreed between Palestinian and Israeli leaders at a summit in Egypt on Tuesday.
The two militant groups were at the forefront of attacks on Israel during the Palestinian uprising, but have been observing an unofficial truce.
The ceasefire is designed to end four years of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Israel is expected to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners shortly, and hand over control of some West Bank towns.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that Israel had agreed to remove major roadblocks as part of its withdrawal from the five towns in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, a high-level meeting of the "quartet" tasked with advancing the Middle East peace process - the US, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations - will be held in London on 1 March.
The gathering will occur during a conference promoting steps to Palestinian statehood, set up by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Hamas representative Osama Hamdan said in Lebanon that the ceasefire declarations were "not binding" on Hamas members. Press split over summit "We agreed with [Mahmoud Abbas] that any truce that should take place must be according to the result of an inter-Palestinian dialogue," he told the Associated Press news agency.
"The resistance is not committed to what has been agreed at the summit... since the Palestinian conditions were not achieved.
"We consider that there is no truce and there is no deal to stop the resistance."
An Islamic Jihad spokesman, Mohammed al-Hindi, said the summit had brought "nothing new".
However, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said he was "fully content" that compliance with the ceasefire would be "complete and comprehensive".
A senior Palestinian official has meanwhile been sent to Lebanon to urge the Hezbollah militia to back the peace moves, French news agency AFP reports, citing unnamed sources.
Abdelfatah Hamayel will reportedly try to get Hezbollah to cut support for Palestinian militant attacks, which Israel has accused it of funding.
The BBC's Alan Johnston, in the Gaza Strip, says Mr Abbas has effectively said to the militants that he can achieve more through dialogue and negotiation than they could through their bombings and missile attacks.
He adds that if Mr Abbas cannot deliver, the likes of Hamas will argue that Israel only listens to the language of the rocket and the Kalashnikov. LINKS TO MORE MIDDLE EAST STORIES
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Carly Fiorina is one of America's most successful businesswomen Carly Fiorina, the chairman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, has resigned.
Ms Fiorina, one of America's most powerful businesswomen, said she was leaving after a dispute with the company's board over future strategy.
The company has struggled to remain profitable since Ms Fiorina pushed through a controversial merger with rival Compaq in 2002.
Investors cheered Ms Fiorina's exit, HP's shares rising 10%.
They stayed sharply higher all day, closing up nearly 7%. Chief financial officer Robert Wayman has replaced Ms Fiorina temporarily.
Ms Fiorina, who headed HP for six years, has been under pressure in recent months as the firm's profits failed to meet market expectations. While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute Hewlett-Packard's strategy, I respect their decision
Earlier this month, Ms Fiorina denied newspaper reports that she had been sidelined and said her relationship with the board remained excellent.
Ms Fiorina oversaw a diversification of HP's activities away from of its core printer and imaging business into the highly competitive personal computer market.
She pushed through the acquisition of Compaq Computer in 2002 despite strong opposition from fellow directors and shareholders.
"Carly Fiorina came to HP to revitalise and reinvigorate the company," Patricia Dunn, HP's non-executive chairman, said in a statement.
"We thank Carly for her significant leadership over the past six years as we look forward to accelerating execution of the company's strategy." Change of direction?
"While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute Hewlett-Packard's strategy, I respect their decision," Ms Fiorina said. Check Hewlett-Packard's share price
Analysts said Ms Fiorina's abrupt departure marked a change of strategy for the company.
"I think Fiorina very much personified the strategy that the company had embraced in the past several years," said Peter Sorrentino, chief investment officer at Bartlett & Co.
"With her departure, it signals to me that they have elected to take a whole new course of action and that they have decided that this was not a strategy she was in support of." LINKS TO MORE BUSINESS STORIES
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French MPs vote out 35-hour week
The government wants to ditch the Socialist legacy French lawmakers have voted in favour of a controversial bill to increase the country's 35-hour working week.
The proposal backed by a large majority allows private-sector employees to work up to 48 hours a week.
The vote followed weeks of protests from trade unions fearing the move may empower companies instead of unions to dictate working hours.
President Chirac's government hopes the Senate will approve the bill next month, after which it would become law.
Observers say the 370-180 vote underscores the government's determination to revamp a system that it blames for a stubbornly high unemployment rate and rising labour costs.
French unemployment figures stand at about 10% of the work force amid complaints from private sector companies that the existing system makes them uncompetitive. It means management will decide the working time, not the employees
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Other than allowing people to work for up to 48 hours in a week - the EU approved maximum - the proposal also relaxes the overtime limit from 180 hours per year to 220.
Workers' groups, however, are threatening further demonstrations over the plans, arguing that the proposal was the first step towards undermining a social security system consolidated by President Jacques Chirac's socialist predecessor.
Trade unions are taking heart from a recent poll suggesting 69% of people were against longer working hours, correspondents say.
More than 300,000 people marched in protests at the weekend, according to an interior ministry count.
However, the unions' power to call strikes in the event of the plans going ahead is limited, believes Dominique Barbet, chief economist at bank BNP Paribas.
"Only 8% of French workers are members of a trade union. Even if they look strong, they are not strong," he told BBC World TV.
"This will mean the end of the shortened working time.
"It means management will decide the working time, not the employees."
Socialist MPs managed to force the vote to be delayed by a day on Tuesday.
But Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin says the government will not be deterred.
The BBC's Caroline Wyatt in Paris says Mr Raffarin's current slogan of "work more to earn more", seems to have become the battle cry in a bitter ideological fight between those who want to protect the French social model and the reformers. LINKS TO MORE EUROPE STORIES
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The Pope has his own chapel in the hospital Pope John Paul II, recovering from flu in hospital, has missed Ash Wednesday services at the Vatican for the first time in his 26 years as pontiff.
US Cardinal James Stafford presided at services on the Pope's behalf.
The Pope has spent the last nine days at Rome's Gemelli hospital - making just one appearance on Sunday to give his regular blessing to pilgrims.
But a Vatican spokesman has raised hopes that the 84-year-old pontiff will soon be able to leave hospital.
Joaquin Navarro-Valls said he hoped Thursday's update on the Pope's health would be the last before he is discharged.
"I can confirm that tomorrow at midday there were will be another bulletin, and I hope it will be the last," he said.
Pope John Paul II marked Ash Wednesday - the first day of Lent - in his hospital room, receiving ashes he had earlier blessed.
Like Catholics around the world, he had his forehead marked with the sign of the cross in ash. Resignation speculation
The head of the Italian bishops' conference, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, said he had visited the Pope in hospital on Wednesday.
He said he had found the pontiff to be "truly in good shape".
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The Pope last made an appearance at his hospital window on Sunday, looking frail but alert.
Reports say he has been regularly saying Mass for his doctors and nurses.
The Polish-born Pope has also long suffered from Parkinson's disease and crippling hip and knee ailments.
Amid speculation that the pontiff may resign because of illness, a Vatican official has suggested he could continue his duties even if he loses the power of speech.
"It is sufficient that one's will be expressed and be expressed in a clear way," Cardinal Mario Francesco Pompedda told La Stampa newspaper.
"It can be expressed very well through writing, and in any case can be expressed also with clear and significant gestures." LINKS TO MORE EUROPE STORIES
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Shaun Wright-Phillips had England's best chances in the first half, but was twice off target from close range.
Dirk Kuijt came closest to breaking the deadlock after only 11 minutes, but he hit the post from 20 yards with England goalkeeper Paul Robinson helpless.
England gave debuts to Andy Johnson and Stewart Downing, but they had little chance to shine as two under-strength sides settled for a draw.
Sven-Goran Eriksson gave Wright-Phillips his first start, and he had chances to make his mark in a first 45 minutes lacking in real quality.
Holland had their own share of possession and were only denied the lead by the woodwork after 11 minutes.
Romeo Castelen found Kuijt, and he flashed a shot past Robinson from 20 yards, but it rebounded to safety off the post.
Wright-Phillips then had the first of two clear chances to mark his full debut with a goal. I feel sorry for the people who paid money to see that pile of rubbish Have your say on 606 England captain David Beckham pulled the ball back inside the area, but the Manchester City winger miscued his shot from close range and it was deflected for a corner.
And after 19 minutes he missed an even better chance to give England the lead.
Gary Neville was the creator with a perfect cross from the right, but Wright-Phillips again failed to make a proper contact, this time from eight yards.
Michael Owen volleyed over the top as England pressed at the end of the first period.
Eriksson made one mystifying change at half-time - when everyone expected the introduction of either Johnson or Downing, the Swede conservatively replaced Frank Lampard with Owen Hargreaves.
Holland started the second period in threatening fashion, with defender Jan Kromkamp sending a dangerous ball across the face of the England goal with no-one on hand to apply the finishing touch.
Then striker Roy Makaay fired narrowly off target before Eriksson made a double change on the hour, sending on Downing and Johnson for Wright-Phillips and Wayne Rooney.
Castelen had the ball in the net with a powerful drive after 63 minutes, but the goal was ruled out for a foul on Ashley Cole.
Holland wasted another chance in the final minute, when Gary Neville's ill-advised attempt at trickery left the vistitors with a break, but Kuijt shot straight at Robinson. Robinson, Gary Neville, Brown, Carragher, Ashley Cole, Beckham (Dyer 82), Gerrard (Jenas 82), Lampard (Hargreaves 45), Wright-Phillips (Downing 61), Owen, Rooney (Andrew Johnson 61). Subs Not Used: Glen Johnson, James, Phil Neville, Joe Cole, Defoe, Green. Van der Sar, Kromkamp, Mathijsen, Boulahrouz, Van Bronckhorst, Landzaat, Heitinga (Van Bommel 62), Van der Vaart, Castelen (Yildirim 64), Makaay, Kuijt. Subs Not Used: De Jong, Melchiot, Timmer. Peter Frojdfeldt (Sweden). Links to more Internationals stories Interview: England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson Interview: England captain David Beckham
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Pietersen ton in vain for England Fifth one-day international, East London
South Africa 311-7 beat England 304-8 by seven runs Kevin Pietersen hit the fastest century ever by an England batsmen in one-day cricket but South Africa won the fifth match of the series by seven runs.
Pietersen finished on 100 not out off 69 balls but was given too much to do after the hosts had hit 311-7, England finally totalling 304-8.
Graeme Smith (115 not out) and Justin Kemp (80 off 50 balls) were brilliant.
But England's reply got off to a desperately slow start and South Africa lead the series 3-1 with two to play.
The game swung South Africa's way early on when Kabir Ali's first over was hit for 20 by Jacques Kallis, who laced five boundaries off it.
Play had begun an hour late after an overnight deluge and though conditions remained overcast and humid, there was no movement on offer for the bowlers.
Kallis's assault on Ali allowed South Africa to coast along in the middle overs, and it did not really matter that the Worcestershire bowler had his revenge by having Kallis caught at fine leg for 49.
Ali also dismissed Herschelle Gibbs for just eight, but Smith and Ashwell Prince then added 62 runs in calm fashion. Personally it is fantastic but I'm not happy to miss victory by eight runs
All the time, the stage was being set for Kemp's assault on the closing overs.
To accommodate the big-hitting all-rounder, Prince was finally run out for 34 and with 15 overs left, South Africa were 181-4 and a really big score was by no means a certainty.
Kemp, who might have been run out by Vikram Solanki when just seven, made use of the short boundaries to launch seven sixes.
Ali and Matthew Hoggard were the luckless bowlers taking most of the flak.
Ali's ninth over disappeared for 25 - giving him final figures of 2-66 in nine overs - and Hoggard ended up with 0-74, also from nine overs.
Justin Kemp was brilliant
When England began their run chase with the floodlights in operation they knew they would have to make the highest score ever at Buffalo Park.
They started in the worst possible way as Trescothick, having hit four ponderous runs, fell to his 20th delivery faced when he edged Shaun Pollock to first slip.
Michael Vaughan was equally disinterested in hitting boundaries, leaving Geraint Jones with too much to do.
The wicket-keeper, after hitting 37, finally gave a catch to point, and Andrew Strauss failed to hit any boundaries before being run out for 20 after a dreadful mix-up with Vaughan.
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He finally got England's momentum going with three sixes off Nicky Boje and some fours thrown in against the seamers.
Vaughan fell to Boje, having taken 94 balls in reaching 70 but when Solanki joined Pietersen the scoring rate was lifted and a tantalising 99 were needed off the last 10 overs with six wickets in hand.
But Solanki was then run out and Paul Collingwood fell cheaply.
Pietersen got good support from the tail, however, but 31 runs were needed off the last two overs and that was too many.
He did at least hit the last ball of the match for six for his second century of the series. G Smith (capt), A de Villiers, J Kallis, H Gibbs, A Prince, J Kemp, M Boucher (wkt), S Pollock, N Boje, M Ntini, A Nel. M Vaughan (capt), M Trescothick, G Jones (wkt), A Strauss, K Pietersen, V Solanki, P Collingwood, A Giles, Kabir Ali, D Gough, M Hoggard. Links to more Cricket stories Report: BBC Five Live's Simon Mann
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Githongo has spent years fighting corruption Kenya's recently resigned anti-corruption czar could be in danger, a colleague has told the BBC.
John Githongo resigned on Monday while in the UK and has not spoken in public.
Gladwell Otieno, who succeeded Mr Githongo as head of the Kenyan branch of Transparency International, said: "It appears his life is threatened".
President Mwai Kibaki was elected in 2002 on a pledge to clean up Kenya but diplomats say that "massive looting" is still going on.
Following Mr Githongo's resignation, the US announced it was suspending funding for Kenya's anti-corruption efforts.
European Union diplomats are due to announce whether they are taking similar steps.
Is Kibaki still committed to fighting corruption?
Ms Otieno said that Mr Githongo had taken a lot of personal risk during his fight against corruption.
"You cannot prevent people from continuing to earn billions of shillings illegitimately without expecting some short of backlash," she told the BBC's World Today programme.
She said she had spoken briefly to Mr Githongo since his resignation and that he felt the government, and President Kibaki, was no longer committed to stopping corruption.
Mr Githongo, a former head of the Kenyan branch of watchdog Transparency International, was appointed just a month after Mr Kibaki's inauguration, to oversee his fight against corruption.
"Another strong, independent and effective anti-corruption crusader must be appointed immediately in order to restore international donor confidence in the current government," said the US ambassador to Kenya William Bellamy, shortly before announcing that the US would stop funding Kenya's anti-corruption efforts.
Donors initially welcomed Mr Kibaki's efforts to stamp out corruption and restored aid, which had been cut off under former President Daniel arap Moi.
But some diplomats estimate that Kenya has lost some $1bn in corruption over the past three years.
A Transparency International survey of perceived corruption rated Kenya 122nd out of 133 countries in 2003.
Meanwhile, an inquiry is continuing into the "Goldenberg affair", in which Kenya lost up to $600m between 1990 and 1993 in payments for non-existent gold.
Mr Moi has denied accusations that he was involved and has resisted attempts to appear in person. LINKS TO MORE AFRICA STORIES
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Kenya has hosted Somalia's leaders for two years and wants them to go Somalia's exiled prime minister has announced plans for his government to begin relocating later this month.
Ali Mohammed Ghedi said it would start leaving Kenya on 21 February.
Mr Ghedi said his government's plans now depended upon the response of donors to his request for $80m. They have so far contributed about $8m.
Considerable divisions remain within the cabinet about the decision to return the government to the divided capital, Mogadishu.
The African Union (AU) has authorised the deployment of thousands of troops from several regional countries to help with the relocation.
But a Somali minister and warlord, Osman Ali Ato, has urged Somalis to fight any Ethiopian troops deployed as part of the AU force.
Correspondents say many Somalis are suspicious of the intentions of neighbouring countries. On Tuesday, a delegation from Somalia's exiled parliament visited the presidential palace for the first time, in what is seen as a highly symbolic move.
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Villa Somalia has been controlled by either warlord Hussein Aideed, now deputy prime minister, or his late father for the last 14 years.
Somalia has been without an effective government since the overthrow of President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
Since then, rival warlords have battled for control of the country, and Somalia has been divided into a patchwork of fiefdoms.
"Considering the findings of the mission ... we will start our official relocation on the 21 February," Mr Ghedi told reporters in Nairobi. Battle for the capital
Most government buildings in Mogadishu are either in ruins or being used as refugee camps - and it has no civil service or treasury. According to the BBC's Hassan Barise, Mogadishu's warlords want to persuade the delegation that the capital is secure to ward off attempts to move the new government elsewhere.
But a significant number of the new administration are reluctant to make Mogadishu the seat of government, favouring other, safer towns such as Baidoa in the south, until security is re-established in the capital.
Divisions about the government's relocation seem to go to the very top, our correspondent says.
President Abdullahi Yusuf, who comes from northern Somalia, never refers to Mogadishu when talking about the move - seen by some as a significant omission. LINKS TO MORE AFRICA STORIES
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Pinochet was president of Chile from 1974 to 1990 A Chilean judge has requested former President General Augusto Pinochet be stripped of legal immunity to enable a new human rights abuse investigation.
Judge Juan Guzman made the request the day he closed an inquiry into the landmark Caravan of Death case.
Twenty military officers are set to go to trial but General Pinochet is not among them due to a Supreme Court decision.
The 1998 lawsuit was the first-ever in Chile involving General Pinochet.
The Chilean Supreme Court had ruled in 2002 that General Pinochet was mentally unfit to defend himself against the allegations.
The judge told the BBC he was now satisfied that the investigation was complete.
"We have studied all the cases, all the crimes that have been committed. It has been a difficult job, a long job, and we have gone as far as we could," he said.
The inquiry into the 1973 Caravan of Death operation, alleging that a special military squad had flown into Chilean towns and cities killing and kidnapping 94 victims, took seven years to complete.
Judge Guzman had charged General Pinochet, along with 20 military officials now on trial, with responsibility for the crimes but the Supreme Court had ruled that the General could not defend himself.
However, having closed one inquiry, Judge Guzman has now requested that General Pinochet be stripped of his protection so he can be investigated over a new case, known as Operation Colombo.
This was a campaign by the Chilean secret police to cover-up the alleged killing of 119 dissidents.
False articles were published abroad claiming they were victims of an internal power struggle within the Left.
A lower court is expected to make a decision on the request in the coming months and it could add to General Pinochet's legal troubles.
Since last year, every major decision by the Chilean courts has gone against the former president. LINKS TO MORE AMERICAS STORIES
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Mark Malloch Brown (left) will discuss UN reform with legislators The United Nations has taken a major step to try to improve its battered reputation with US lawmakers.
Mark Malloch Brown, the new chief of staff to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, is to hold meetings with key legislators in Washington.
They are investigating allegations of criminal wrongdoing within the UN's former oil-for-food programme in Iraq.
Last week, an independent inquiry into the operation found evidence of wrongdoing and management failures.
This high-profile visit to Capitol Hill represents something of a charm offensive by Mr Malloch Brown.
The Briton is to meet both supporters and opponents of the UN, including holding discussions with a key Republican senator who called for Kofi Annan's resignation last year over the oil-for-food programme.
Senator Norm Coleman accused the secretary general of presiding over the greatest fraud and theft in UN history.
A UN spokeswoman said Mr Malloch Brown was keen to hear ideas on how to reform the world body but would also be emphasising to lawmakers the managerial and administrative changes that are already under way.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Buenaventura Pascual said the army had killed about 40 separatist rebels and lost 20 soldiers. There is no independent confirmation of these figures.
The clashes began on Monday, when more than 500 rebels loyal to separatist leader Nur Misuari attacked troops in retaliation for a recent army assault.
A huge military operation was launched last week, to target the armed Muslim group Abu Sayyaf - an al-Qaeda linked organisation which is also alleged to have ties with the Misuari faction.
Military officials say Misuari's supporters are using the attack on Abu Sayyaf as a pretext to pressurise the authorities to have Misuari transferred from a prison near Manila to one in Jolo.
Misuari used to be the head of the separatist Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which signed a peace treaty with Manila in 1996.
But the violence continued and Misuari was jailed on charges of rebellion in 2001.
The latest skirmishes have been concentrated in several towns around Jolo, a known stronghold for Islamic militants.
Muslim rebels fired mortar shells at a military camp in Patikul town on Wednesday, but most of the fighting is thought to have taken place in the coastal town of Panamao.
Civilian residents of Panamao are being moved from the area, officials told the French news agency AFP.
Brigadier General Agustin Demaala said he was urging the rebels to stop their attacks, stressing that Abu Sayyaf - not followers of Nur Misuari - were the target of the recent government offensive. LINKS TO MORE ASIA-PACIFIC STORIES
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North Korea's fans were mainly ethnic Koreans living in Japan A potentially explosive football match between Japan and North Korea, who are locked in a diplomatic stand-off, has ended without incident.
The World Cup qualifier, which Japan won 2-1, was played amid heightened political tensions between the rivals.
In recent years, North Korea test-fired a missile over Japan and admitted it abducted several Japanese in the 1970s and 80s, to help train its spies.
Some 3,500 security officials were mobilised for the match near Tokyo.
The mood during the match itself was calm.
Some Japanese fans booed when the North Korean team was introduced, but they were quiet while the North's national anthem was played, and some even clapped afterwards, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Precautionary measures had included a buffer zone of empty seats in the stadium in Saitama, outside Tokyo, to keep the two sets of fans apart.
The stadium was overwhelmingly blue - the Japanese fans' colours. But some 5,000 seats were given to North Korea's supporters, clad in red, although almost all of them are thought to have been members of Japan's North Korean community.
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Eight said to be dead, others missing Heartbreak over Japan's missing The row over the abducted Japanese, and Pyongyang's failure to account for a number of the missing, has outraged Japanese popular opinion.
Pressure has mounted for the Japanese government to impose sanctions on North Korea. On Tuesday, the administration received a petition signed by at least five million people calling for such economic action against the North.
However, Tokyo has signalled that sanctions would only be used as a last resort. North Korea says they would be tantamount to a declaration of war.
Meanwhile official propaganda in North Korea continues to rail against Japan's past misdeeds during its often brutal colonisation of the Korean peninsula between 1910 and 1945.
North Korean football achieved worldwide fame with its historic victory over Italy in the 1966 World Cup finals, but the team has failed to match that achievement since.
A former North Korean football coach who defected to South Korea has said that after the North's team failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il ordered them to train hard for 10 years before trying again.
Most of North Korea's players came from the army's 4.25 squad, but two players were from Japan's ethnic Korean community, and normally play in Japan's J-League.
Japan and North Korea are in Group B, along with Bahrain and Iran. South Korea, the 2002 World Cup semi-finalists, are in Group A with Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and Kuwait.
Each team in each group plays the others twice, home and away. The Japan-North Korea re-match is scheduled to take place in Pyongyang in June.
The top two teams in each of the two Asian groups will qualify automatically for next year's World Cup in Germany. LINKS TO MORE ASIA-PACIFIC STORIES
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The bomb is thought to have contained 20-30kg of explosives A car bomb has exploded near a Madrid conference centre, injuring 43 people, hours before a royal visit.
Spanish police say a caller claiming to be from the Basque militant group Eta told a newspaper the group was planning to explode a device in the city.
The blast occurred at 0930 (0830 GMT) near the Juan Carlos I Convention Centre - one of the proposed venues for Madrid's 2012 Olympic bid.
Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia had been due to visit the centre.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, on a visit to Poland, condemned the attack, saying there was no room for "the terrorists of Eta and their supporters" in civil society or politics.
"Bombs will only lead you to prison," he said.
"They will never achieve any of their objectives with violence. And this feeling is overwhelmingly the majority view, not just among Spaniards, but also among all Basque citizens." In pictures: Madrid blast
But the banned Basque separatist party, Batasuna, said calls for condemnation of the attack were "outdated".
Batasuna leader Joseba Permach said: "Some will still dare to demand that Batasuna condemn the attack, as if that were a magic wand to solve all problems."
The call to the Basque newspaper Gara was made shortly before the white Renault 19 car exploded near the Campo de las Naciones in the Avenida de los Andes.
Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said police and explosives experts had been deployed after the warning, but the call had not been precise enough to locate the device before it went off.
Flying glass from nearby buildings is said to have caused most of the injuries when the bomb exploded outside a building belonging to the French computer manufacturer Bull.
Mr Alonso said police explosives experts estimated that the car bomb contained between 20-30kg of explosives. He said the fight against terrorism would continue.
Although Eta is widely believed to have been weakened after more than 200 arrests over the past two years, Mr Alonso acknowledged the group was still capable of carrying out attacks.
"It hasn't a political or social future but it has - as I have said in the past - operative capability," he said.
The BBC's Danny Wood, in Madrid, said the car bomb, the telephone call and the high profile venue were hallmarks of an Eta attack.
The attack happened on the same day as a police operation in the Basque country, Navarre and Valencia that has resulted in the arrest of 14 suspected members of Eta.
Last week the Spanish parliament rejected a plan for even greater autonomy for the Basque country.
Some Basque separatist deputies in the regional assembly had backed the plan, put forward by the Basque regional premier Juan Jose Ibarretxe.
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Yukos is now worth a fraction of its former value The majority owner of embattled Russian oil firm Yukos has sued the Russian government for $28.3bn (£15.2bn).
The Kremlin last year seized and sold Yukos' main production arm, Yugansk, to state-run oil group Rosneft for $9.3bn to offset a massive back tax bill.
Group Menatep, the Gibraltar-based holding company which controls 51% of Yukos, says this was illegal.
Menatep has already asked Rosneft to repay a $900m loan that Yugansk had secured on its assets.
The Russian government's argument for selling Yuganskneftegaz - the unit's full name - was that Yukos owed more than $27bn in back taxes for the years from 2000 onwards.
It accused the firm of using a web of offshore firms to avoid its tax liabilities, and the courts sent in bailiffs to freeze Yukos accounts and seize Yugansk. We have warned any buyer of Yuganskneftegaz that they would face a lifetime of litigation
Tim Osborne, Group Menatep But critics say the sell-off, and the assault on Yukos' finances, are part of an attempt to bring the energy industry back under state control.
According to Menatep, the government's actions were contrary to the 1994 Energy Charter Treaty, which was designed to regulate disagreements over energy investments.
"We have warned the Russian government about their continuing attacks against Yukos, its personnel and its shareholders and we have warned any buyer of Yuganskneftegaz that they would face a lifetime of litigation," said Tim Osborne, a director of Group Menatep.
"The time for warning is over and actions to recover the value of our losses begin in earnest today."
Menatep said the value of its Yukos shareholding had gone from $17.8bn to "virtually nothing" since 2003 as a result of the Russian government's action, as its shares have fallen 97%.
According to its Paris lawyer, Emmanuel Gaillard of Shearman and Sterling, the overall claim is based on that figure, with a 60% addition for the share gains that could have accrued since then.
Arbitration of the lawsuit could take place in Stockholm or The Hague, Mr Gaillard said.
While Russia has signed the Charter, it has never ratified it - which some experts say could make it difficult for Menatep to press its case.
But Mr Gaillard told BBC News that the Charter came into effect on signature, not ratification.
"Russia has said in the past that it is bound by it, so as to attract foreign investors," he said.
Yukos is still waiting to see what will happen to its filing in a US court for bankruptcy protection.
It took the action to try to prevent the forced sale of Yugansk - first to a little-known shell company, which in turn was bought by Rosneft.
Yukos claims its downfall was punishment for the political ambitions of its founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Mr Khodorkovsky, currently facing fraud and tax evasion charges of his own, was one of the founders of Menatep.
He has since signed over his shareholding to one of his fellow investors. LINKS TO MORE BUSINESS STORIES
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The heavy snow has caused huge disruption Heavy snow has disrupted ordinary life in the Iranian capital, Tehran, with schools closed for most of the week and many people unable to get to work.
Roads to the north and west of the country have been closed, leaving some villages in the mountains cut off.
More than 70 flights were cancelled on Tuesday alone, and many others have been delayed.
One newspaper says it is the worst weather for 34 years, and the forecast is for more snow in the coming days.
In the capital, Tehran, 10,000 bulldozers and 13,000 municipal workers have been deployed to keep the main roads open - but many small lanes are still blocked.
Public transport has been badly disrupted with long queues for buses and quarrels between the public and taxi drivers who have been increasing their fares.
Children who have been off school all week have been building snow men and playing snowballs, while young boys are making money by shovelling the snow off people's roofs and driveways.
All this comes as the authorities are planning a rally in Tehran for Thursday to mark the anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
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Kuwaiti police have launched a crackdown on militants The alleged leader of a cell accused of plots to kidnap US soldiers and other Westerners in Kuwait has died in custody, Kuwaiti officials say.
Amer Khlaif al-Enezi died on Tuesday of heart failure, interior ministry officials said.
He was arrested on 31 January in a raid on a house, south of Kuwait City.
Kuwait is a major ally of Washington but militants widely oppose the US military presence in their country.
Enezi, who was believed to be in his 30s, was seized along with five of his supporters after a nine-hour gun battle with security forces in the al-Qurain area, south of the capital.
Four gunmen were reported to have been killed in that exchange.
The Kuwaiti newspaper al-Qabas said on its website that Enezi died after suffering a heart attack.
It said prosecutors had questioned him before he developed health problems and was examined by doctors.
The state-owned Kuwait News Agency said Enezi was "moved to the Armed Forces Hospital after he had trouble breathing", and he died there.
Enezi had been a preacher at a mosque in Jahra, 40km (25 miles) north-west of Kuwait City, until he was dismissed a few months ago by the ministry of Islamic affairs because of his "extremist views", the news agency AFP reported.
Enezi's younger brother and alleged right-hand man, Nasser, was reportedly killed on 30 January during a battle with security forces.
According to Kuwaiti media reports, Enezi confessed during interrogation that his group had links with al-Qaeda.
He allegedly admitted to a plot to kidnap US soldiers and other Westerners and film their murders, and to attack US military convoys on their way to Iraq.
Kuwait has launched a campaign against those it suspects of plans to attack state security or Western interests.
At least eight alleged militants have been killed and as many as 25 Kuwaiti and Saudi suspects arrested in recent weeks.
Four police officers have died and 10 others have been wounded. LINKS TO MORE MIDDLE EAST STORIES
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The army believes some tribes have been supporting al-Qaeda Pakistan says it has paid 32m rupees ($540,000) to help four former wanted tribal militants in South Waziristan settle debts with al-Qaeda.
Military operations chief in the region, Lt Gen Safdar Hussain, said the payments were part of a peace deal signed on Monday with tribesmen.
It is the first time Pakistan has admitted making such payments.
Also on Wednesday, wanted militant Abdullah Mehsud rejected Monday's peace deal signed by others in his tribe.
Gen Hussain said four former wanted militants had insisted they needed the money to pay back huge sums to al-Qaeda.
Haji Sharif and Maulvi Abbas received 15m rupees each, while Maulvi Javed and Haji Mohammad Omar were each paid one million rupees.
Gen Hussain said a sum of 20m rupees was also offered to tribal leader, Baitullah Mehsud, who signed the peace deal, but that he rejected it.
The commander said the militants had initially sought 170m rupees.
The peace deal offers an amnesty in return for the tribe's pledge not to support al-Qaeda and Taleban militants or attack government installations. Embarrassing incident
However, on Wednesday tribal militant Abdullah Mehsud, wanted for kidnapping two Chinese engineers last year, told the BBC he did not support the deal signed by Baitullah Mehsud.
Abdullah Mehsud said only a holy war would evict "US agents" from Pakistan. My people are not responsible for the killing of the two journalists Profile: Abdullah Mehsud
Speaking to the BBC's Haroon Rashid in Peshawar by phone from an undisclosed location, he said: "Baitullah's thinking might be that he can achieve his aims by signing the peace agreement, while mine is that only a holy war against the US and Pakistani government could achieve this."
Abdullah Mehsud spent about two years in US custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before being released.
He fought for the Taleban in Afghanistan, losing a leg in a landmine explosion a few days before the Taleban took Kabul in September 1996.
He is wanted for masterminding the abduction of two Chinese engineers in South Waziristan last year, one of whom was killed in a rescue attempt.
The incident was highly embarrassing for the Pakistani government, which has close ties with Beijing.
Abdullah Mehsud, condemning those who appealed to China to grant him amnesty, accused Beijing of killing Muslims.
The Mehsud tribe is the dominant clan in the Afghan border region.
Shortly after Monday's accord, two journalists who attended the signing were killed when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in Wana.
Abdullah Mehsud said on Wednesday: "My people are not responsible for the killing of the two journalists."
Pakistan believes hundreds of militants, including Arabs, Afghans and Central Asians, are holed up in the South Waziristan region. LINKS TO MORE SOUTH ASIA STORIES
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The tsunami left about 1,000 orphans in the country A DNA sample has been taken from the Sri Lankan baby boy who survived a tsunami only to become the centre of a row about who his parents are.
"Baby 81" survived the Indian Ocean disaster on 26 December and is now claimed by nine different couples, one of which has gone to court.
Escorted by three nurses and a lawyer, he was tested in the capital, Colombo.
Murugupillai and Junitha Jeyarajah also had samples taken, but the results will not be announced for at least a week. We drove slow and the baby had a good sleep
They say the boy, who was found caked in mud amid the debris of the tsunami, is their son, Abhilasha, who would now be nearly four months old.
Mohammed Nazir, a court official who accompanied the baby on the 300km (186-mile) journey from hospital in the town of Kalmunai to Colombo in an ambulance equipped with nappies and feeding bottles, said the infant was "fine" before the test.
"It was a long journey," he added. "We drove slow and the baby had a good sleep."
Baby 81 was given a police escort for the trip after an alleged attempt by the couple to snatch him from a hospital a week ago. In pictures: Snatch drama
He was given his name because he was the 81st person admitted to the Kalmunai hospital on the day the tsunami crashed down on shores around the Indian Ocean, killing more than 200,000 people.
The Jeyarajahs have said they are confident of being united with the baby they maintain is their son, Abhilasha, born on 19 October 2004.
More than 30,000 people were killed by the tsunami in Sri Lanka. Children are believed to make up about 40% of the dead.
The tsunami left about 1,000 orphans in the country, according to data quoted by the UN's children's charity, Unicef.
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Gerry Conlon has campaigned for a public apology Tony Blair has apologised to two families who suffered one of the UK's biggest miscarriages of justice.
The prime minister was commenting on the wrongful jailing of 11 people for IRA bomb attacks on pubs in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974.
Mr Blair said: "I am very sorry that they were subject to such an ordeal and injustice."
He made the apology to members of the Conlon and Maguire families in his private room at Westminster.
In a statement recorded for television, Mr Blair said the families deserved "to be completely and publicly exonerated". It's a day I never thought would come A reporter's 1974 memories Innocents jailed over attacks Analysis: 'Glaring' injustice The families had hoped the apology would be made during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons.
However, one of the so-called Guildford Four, Gerry Conlon - who was wrongly convicted of planting the bombs - said the families were delighted with the apology.
He said Mr Blair had spoken with "such sincerity", adding: "He went beyond what we thought he would, he took time to listen to everyone.
"You could see he was moved by what people were saying.
"Tony Blair has healed rifts, he is helping to heal wounds. It's a day I never thought would come."
The move followed a huge campaign in Ireland for a public apology after eleven people were wrongly convicted of making and planting the IRA bombs which killed seven people.
Mr Blair's official spokesman said no-one present at the meeting would "ever forget the strength of feeling of relief that the prime minister's statement brought to them". It would have been better for the apology to have been made in Parliament
David Bourne, Aberystwyth, Wales Send us your comments Most of those convicted were either members or friends of the two families.
All were arrested because of a family connection to Gerry Conlon.
Mr Conlon's father Giuseppe was arrested when travelling to London from Belfast to help his son. He died while serving his sentence.
Also arrested were Anne Maguire and members of her family. Mrs Maguire was the relative with whom Giuseppe planned to stay in London, as well as two family friends.
She said it was a "wonderful feeling" to have had the apology and that a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. The people who were still doubting us should now believe that we were totally innocent In quotes: Blair's apology "The people who were still doubting us should now believe that we were totally innocent," she said.
They were all jailed for handling explosives, based on scientific evidence which was later entirely discredited.
In October 1989 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentences of the Guildford Four, and in June 1991 it overturned the sentences on the Maguire Seven.
Mr Conlon's case was highlighted in the Oscar-nominated film In The Name Of The Father, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. LINKS TO MORE NORTHERN IRELAND STORIES
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Aero India is seen as a big business opportunity India's defence minister has opened the country's Aero India 2005 air show with an invitation for global aerospace firms to outsource jobs to the nation.
Pranab Mukherjee said such companies could take advantage of India's highly skilled workers and low wages.
More than 240 civil and military aerospace firms from 31 countries are attending the show.
Analysts said India could spend up to $35bn (£18.8bn) in the aviation market over the next 20 years.
Giants such Boeing and Airbus - on the civil aviation front - as well as Lockheed Martin and France's Snecma - on the military side - are some of the firms attending the show.
"There is tremendous scope for outsourcing from India in areas where the companies are competitive," said Mr Mukerjee.
"We are keen to welcome international collaborations that are in conformity with our national goals."
Lockheed said it had signed an agreement with state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) to share information on the P-3 Orion maritime surveillance aircraft.
The US is keen to sell its aircraft to India
In fact, the Indian Armed Force is considering the buying of used P-3 Orion as well as F-16 fighter jets from Lockheed.
The US military industry has show a strong interest to open a link with India, now that relations between the two countries have improved a lot.
In fact, it is the first time the US Air Force will attend the air show since sanctions imposed in 1998 after India's nuclear tests were lifted.
But the Indian Air Force is also considering proposals from other foreign firms such as France's Dassault Aviation, Sweden's Gripen and Russia's Mikoyan-Gurevich.
Meanwhile, France's Snecma has also said it plans a joint venture with HAL to make engine parts, with an initial investment of $6.5m.
Airbus had the supremacy over the Indian market in 2004. On the civilian front, Boeing announced a deal with India's HCL Technologies to develop a platform for the flight test system of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
The US company also said it had agreed with a new Indian budget airline the sale of 10 737-800 planes for $630m.
The airline, SpiceJet, will also have the option to acquire 10 more aircrafts.
Airbus has also recently signed fresh deals with two Indian airlines - Air Deccan and Kingfisher.
In addition, the European company has plans to open a training centre in India.
Meanwhile, flag carrier Air India is considering to buy 50 new aircraft from either Boeing or Airbus.
"No other market is going to see the growth that will be seen here in the coming years," said Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president Boeing. LINKS TO MORE BUSINESS STORIES
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The device works alongside current monitors A cot-side device that checks vital signs such as heart rate and breathing could save the lives of many more premature babies, say doctors.
It uses technology to predict signs of distress and organ failure in premature babies before they actually happen.
This would give doctors an early warning that they need to take preventative action.
Professor Neil McIntosh and colleagues at Edinburgh University are trialling their device. This has a really good chance of giving us an early warning system
Professor Neil Marlow, professor of neonatal medicine at Nottingham University
Hospitals already use commercial monitors to check vital signs that allow the doctor to tell how a baby is doing.
However, looking at real-time readings - as they happen - will not always alert doctors that there is a problem until it is quite advanced.
Professor McIntosh said: "For example, we know that if a baby's lungs rupture when ventilated it takes about two hours to make the diagnosis and about 40% of such babies would die.
"With our system we can pick up almost all of those within 10 minutes.
"That clearly gives a lot of time to manage the baby and get them out of the downwards spiral that they might otherwise get into," he said.
The device comprises a normal computer with advanced software that took the team 10 years to develop.
The software looks at the data recorded by the commercial monitors and looks for downward trends in a baby's vital signs long before the baby reaches crisis point.
The team are still working out the best way to alert doctors when such trends are spotted, which could include a buzzer and a written warning that would flash across the computer screen.
Professor McIntosh said they have been monitoring about 10 babies at a time using their new device.
The team have three years funding to continue their work, involving more than 2,000 premature babies.
The long term aim is to produce a cot-side monitoring system, which would cost about £1,000 a piece, to roll out across UK hospitals.
Professor Neil Marlow, professor of neonatal medicine at Nottingham University said: "This has a really good chance of giving us an early warning system.
"I would hope this would be valuable for all babies needing continuous monitoring in a neonatal intensive care unit."
Around 80,000 babies in the UK and Ireland are born prematurely each year and 17,000 of these need intensive care, according to the premature baby charity BLISS, which has helped fund the project. LINKS TO MORE HEALTH STORIES
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Stem cell work is advancing fast in countries such as Korea and China Leading UK scientists and entrepreneurs are calling for the creation of a charitable foundation to promote and fund stem cell research in Britain.
They believe this could accelerate work on developing new therapies for diseases such as diabetes, Parkinson's, and for treating spinal injuries.
The group believes a fund of £100m would be necessary to anchor the UK's position as a leader in the field.
The call was made at the Centre For Life, a Newcastle science park.
It hosted a meeting for the British stem cell research community on Tuesday.
Stem cells are premature cells that are capable of becoming any of a number of mature cells within the body, given the right conditions. I think that there's a gap - I know that there's a gap - and I think it's quite substantial and I want to do something about it
Prof Sir Chris Evans, venture capitalist and bioscientist And many scientists are convinced that if they can learn how to control the biochemistry involved, they will be able deliver new therapies for degenerative diseases where cells have started to fail - from heart disease to diabetes.
One of the key movers behind the fund to back this kind of research is Professor Sir Chris Evans, a venture capitalist and bioscientist.
He is concerned early advances made in the UK will be overtaken abroad unless money can be found to take basic research into clinical trials much faster.
"[Britain] pioneered this entire field but now we are sliding backwards somewhat, as others accelerate ahead," he told BBC News.
"You see big breakthroughs from China, Korea, Japan and in Germany; and there is a wall of money surfacing in the USA."
The proposed UK Stem Cell Foundation would have a board of trustees - high-profile businessmen and scientists who could help raise substantial monies.
These include the Virgin Group chairman, Sir Richard Branson; fertility expert and BBC TV presenter Lord Winston; president of the Royal Society and former UK Chief Scientist, Lord May; former science minister Ian Gibson, MP; geneticist and best-selling author Professor Steve Jones; and Sir Richard Sykes, the former chairman of GlaxoSmithKline plc.
The fund would look to support all areas of stem cell research - it would not focus exclusively on the ethically difficult area of cells taken from embryos, but would look to back good ideas that use cells taken for adult tissue, too.
"What we have got to do is to get into what's called translational research," said Sir Chris.
"We need to take potential stem cell medicines, regenerative medicines, to the clinic, into patients and do proper clinical trials and prove the benefits.
"That's the delivery everybody wants, but to get there it's a few more years and a lot of money and I think that there's a gap - I know that there's a gap - and I think it's quite substantial and I want to do something about it."
The group is now in discussions with the government about how best to move forward its ideas.
The foundation's backers are keen to provide support that would add to the already considerable funds flowing from government and medical charities such as the Wellcome Trust.
But what they do not want to see happen is duplication or their investment take the place of existing funding.
News of the Newcastle initiative came on the day that Dolly the sheep creator Professor Ian Wilmut was granted a licence to clone embryos.
Working with Kings College London scientists he will harvest the embryos for stem cells in a quest to understand the causes and find a new treatment for motor neurone disease. LINKS TO MORE SCIENCE/NATURE STORIES
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PC users are urged to download the fixes as soon as possible Microsoft has warned PC users to update their systems with the latest security fixes for flaws in Windows programs.
In its monthly security bulletin, it flagged up eight "critical" security holes which could leave PCs open to attack if left unpatched.
The number of holes considered "critical" is more than usual.
They affect Windows programs, including Internet Explorer (IE), media player and instant messaging. Four other important fixes were also released.
These were considered to be less critical, however.
If not updated, either automatically or manually, PC users running the programs could be vulnerable to viruses or other malicious attacks designed to exploit the holes.
Many of the flaws could be used by virus writers to take over computers remotely, install programs, change, and delete or see data.
One of the critical patches Microsoft has made available is an important one that fixes some IE flaws.
Stephen Toulouse, a Microsoft security manager, said the flaws were known about, and although the firm had not seen any attacks exploiting the flaw, he did not rule them out.
Often, when a critical flaw is announced, spates of viruses follow because home users and businesses leave the flaw unpatched.
A further patch fixes a hole in Media Player, Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger which an attacker could use to take control of unprotected machines through .png files.
Microsoft announces any vulnerabilities in its software every month. The most important ones are those which are classed as "critical".
Its latest releases came the week that the company announced it was to buy security software maker Sybari Software as part of Microsoft's plans to make its own security programs. LINKS TO MORE TECHNOLOGY STORIES
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Scissor Sisters won three awards at the ceremony US band Scissor Sisters led the winners at the UK music industry's Brit Awards, walking off with three prizes.
The flamboyant act scored a hat-trick in the international categories, winning the best group, best album and best newcomer awards.
Scottish group Franz Ferdinand won two prizes, as did Keane and Joss Stone, who was voted best urban act by digital TV viewers.
Robbie Williams' Angels was named the best song of the past 25 years.
Franz Ferdinand won two of their five categories Scissor Sisters frontwoman Ana Matronic collected the best international album prize from singer Siouxie Sioux.
She told the audience: "If you told us a year ago we would be getting these awards today we would have called you crazy. You guys made our dream come true."
The band - who opened the show with their track Take Your Mama, and whose self-titled LP was 2004's biggest-selling album - thanked "all the members of the sisterhood", adding: "We wouldn't be here without you."
The US band - who opened the show with Take Your Mama - won the best international act and newcomer awards, as well as best international album.
Franz Ferdinand, who were shortlisted in five categories, won best rock act and best British group, an award they dedicated to late DJ John Peel.
But they missed out on best British live act, which went to Muse. Keane won best British album and breakthrough act. Will Young won the best single prize for Your Game.
Robbie Williams has now won 15 Brit Awards McFly won the best pop act prize, and Gwen Stefani picked up the best international female artist award. Eminem won the male prize.
Best British male artist winner Mike Skinner - aka The Streets - does not usually attend award ceremonies, but the Birmingham hip-hop artist performed his hit Dry Your Eyes at the ceremony.
However, he did not collect his prize. A bandmate informed the crowd Skinner was "in the toilet".
After beating Amy Winehouse, Jamelia, Natasha Bedingfield and PJ Harvey to the best British female prize, Joss Stone said: "I don't know what to say. I don't like doing this at all. I'd like to thank my family for being really supportive and everybody that made my record with me."
"I don't even know what to do right now. Thank you all you guys for voting for me, I feel sick right now."
Viewers of digital music TV channel MTV Base voted Stone the winner in the best urban act category.
Little Britain comedy duo Matt Lucas and David Walliams presented the best song prize to Robbie Williams dressed as his former Take That colleagues Gary Barlow and Howard Donald, leading him to quip he was "always the talented man of the band".
Daniel and Natasha Bedingfield performed together Williams' track beat songs by Will Young, Queen, Kate Bush and Joy Division in a vote by BBC Radio 2 listeners to mark 25 years of the UK music industry ceremony.
It is his 15th Brit award, having already received 10 solo awards and four with Take That. He told the audience: "I'm just amazed that my career keeps going."
Keane frontman Tom Chaplin thanked fans for enduring "rubbish gigs" after they won the British breakthrough act prize.
He added: "A lot of people don't think it's cool that we've had the guts to be ourselves but it's a vital part of who we are as a band and receiving this is recognition of that." Chart-topping siblings
Natasha Bedingfield - in the running for best British female and best pop act - performed with her brother Daniel for the first time at Wednesday's event.
Gwen Stefani won the best international female prize The chart-topping siblings duetted on the Chaka Khan hit Ain't Nobody.
Meanwhile, Joss Stone performed Right To Be Wrong backed by a gospel choir, while Lemar and Jamelia performed the Robert Palmer track Addicted To Love.
Bob Geldof won a prize for his outstanding contribution to music.
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