saboteurs
. A hangar at the airport is said to have been
blown up
, and a grass field set alight by the occupying brigade. Tripoli says the international airport will be shut down for the next 24 hours to resolve technical issues like communications. Rana Jawad in Tripoli Unconfirmed reports from Syria say that scores of soldiers were killed in fighting with anti-government forces over the weekend.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had obtained the names of 80 dead soldiers from local doctors. It said rebels also claimed to have destroyed some army tanks in the clashes on Saturday and Sunday.
A Canadian man suspected of killing and filming the dismemberment of his boyfriend has been arrested in Germany. An international warrant was issued for Luka Rocco Magnotta after his partner's headless torso was found in a suitcase in Montreal. Steve Evans reports from Berlin.
The 29-year-old became known as the "Canadian psycho" because police believe he killed his lover in Montreal with an ice pick, filming the murder and putting it on the Internet. During the horrific video, a song from the film American Psycho plays in the background. He then sent a severed foot to the offices of the governing Canadian Conservative Party. The Berlin police say they've now caught him in the city suburb of Neukoelln.
News from the BBC
A court in Denmark has found four men guilty of plotting a gun attack on a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. The men, three Swedish nationals of Arab origin and a Tunisian, were sentenced to 12 years in prison. They had planned what prosecutors called a shooting