as to
whether a senior Taliban leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, died in a similar attack in January.
Ukraine and Russia have publicly accused each other of spying. The incident comes just two weeks after a Russian ambassador returned to Ukraine following an absence of five months and less than a week before the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election. James Rodgers has more.
Ukraine says that the five alleged Russian spies were caught with a camera
conceal
ed inside a pen, other
espionage
equipment and 2,000 dollars, a reported bribe for a Ukrainian contact. The head of Ukraine's security service says the five were trying to obtain military secrets. Four of them have been
expelled from
Ukraine, while the fifth has been detained. Russia's security service, the FSB, has confirmed the detention but denied the Ukrainian version of events. The FSB said its actions were a response to the recruitments of Russians by the Ukrainian security services.
A leading British medical publication, the Lancet, has formally
retract
ed a study it published 12 years ago, suggesting a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, MMR, and autism. Britain's General Medical Council said the author of the report, Doctor Andrew Wakefield, had been dishonest and irresponsible. The study had caused a large drop in the number of children receiving the vaccine, as many parents believed it was unsafe.