The Scotsman - Internationalnews-world:WorldBomb at Belarus concert hurts 50- July 5, 2008 UP TO 50 people were wounded yesterday by a home-made bomb that sprayed nuts and bolts into the crowd at an open-air concert in Minsk, the Belarus capital.http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Bomb-at-Belarus-concert-hurts.4259188.jp For a frontline Scots soldier the difference between life and death is only a whisker- July 5, 2008 PRIVATE David Poderis was lying flat on the roof of a small brick building when the jolt to his helmet came.http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/For-a-frontline--Scots.4259181.jp Pompeii in state of emergency- July 5, 2008 ITALY'S cabinet yesterday issued a year-long state-of-emergency ruling for Pompeii just hours after the scale of neglect at the site was revealed in a damning newspaper rehttp://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Pompeii-in-state--of.4259180.jp Miracle material that saves troops' lives- July 5, 2008 A soldier shelters from the heat but keeps on his armourhttp://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Miracle--material-that-saves.4259411.jp I owe my life to France, freed Colombian hostage declares- July 5, 2008 INGRID Betancourt, the freed Colombian politician, said she owed her life to France as President Nicolas Sarkozy gave her a hero's welcome to Paris.http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/I-owe-my-life-to.4259155.jp Ex-warlord accused of Congo atrocities- July 5, 2008 FORMER Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba has appeared at the International Criminal Court facing charges of rape and torture linked to a brutal conflict in Centralhttp://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Exwarlord-accused-of-Congo-atrocities.4259160.jp Step forward for Chinese harmony- July 5, 2008 WEARING matching pink shirts to mark the occasion, 100 excited Chinese tourists piled off the Xiamen Airlines flight in Sungshan Airport, Taipei.http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Step-forward-for-Chinese-harmony.4259175.jp Brazilian banker to be extradited- July 5, 2008 BRAZIL'S most wanted white-collar criminal will be extradited from Monaco to face charges over one of the country's biggest bank frauds ever, the justice ministry saidhttp://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/Brazilian-banker-to-be-extradited.4259152.jp At home with the warlord who is now a Taleban target- July 5, 2008 TWO guards escorted us to the compound, their guns ready loaded. This may have seemed a bit excessive for a walk of just several hundred metres up a dusty hill, but thishttp://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/At-home-with-the-warlord.4259176.jp The look of relief as six years in jungle captivity come to an end- July 5, 2008 THIS is the moment Ingrid Betancourt realised she had been freed after six years as a hostage in the Colombian jungle.http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/The-look-of-relief-as.4259424.jp |