BBC news with Jerry Smit.

The Justice Ministry in Rome says the CIA’s former Milan station chief who’s been convicted by Italian courts has been detained in Panama. Robert Seldon Lady was sentenced in absentia for his role in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric, Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. Mr Nasr says he was transported to Egypt when he was tortured. David Willey reports from Rome. Robert Lady is one of the first Americans to be convicted anywhere in the world in connection with the extraordinary rendition program of the CIA. He’s technically a fugitive from Italian justice, having been convicted in his absence, and sentenced by an appeals court in Milan early this year to nine years jail, for taking part in a notorious kidnap ten years ago from a street in Milan of a Muslim cleric called Abu Omar. CIA has made no comment on the arrest and police in Panama say they have no information about Mr. Lady’s detention.

The city of Detroit has filed for bankruptcy, the largest city to do so in the United States. The city, nicknamed motor-city for its once great automobile industry has more than 18 billion dollars of debt. It’s seeking protection from its creditors, including large pension funds and public sector workers.

The judge hearing the Court Martial of the American soldier Bradley Manning, who’s accused of passing thousands of documents to Wikileaks, has refused to throw out the most serious charge he faces aiding the enemy. The offense carries a mandatory life imprisonment. From Washington, Rajini Vaidyanathan reports. Bradley Manning admits he uploaded more than 700, 000 diplomatic cables and US military documents to the Wikileaks websites. But he denies he did this to help or assist terror groups, such as Al Qaeda. Defense lawyer has been pushing for the charge to be dismissed, but the judge at the court room here of Fort Meade decided it should remain. She said the way in which Private Manning prepared and trained ahead of leaking the information backed up the government’s argument that he’d knowingly aided the enemy