Elderly are burnt to death in witch-hunt

NAIROBI Eleven elderly people were killed by a mob who accused them of witchcraft and set them on fire. Officials said that about 100 people went from house to house in Nyakeo village in western Kenya on Tuesday and seized eight women and three men, all aged over 70. They then tied them up and set them and 50 houses ablaze.

Czechs approve anti-missile radar

PRAGUE Mirek Topolanek, the Czech Prime Minister, said his Government had approved the main accord on the deployment of a US antimissile radar in the country. The deal must now be approved by parliament, together with an accord covering the conditions for US forces to be based in the Czech Republic. (AFP)

Stamp of disapproval

BERLIN German neo-Nazis used a personalised stamp service offered by Deutsche Post to create a 55-cent stamp carrying a portrait of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess. Deutsche Post’s quality control failed to spot the portrait. (AP)

Early morning cull

MBABANE A ban on cockerels in Mbabane, the capital of Swaziland, is to be enforced so that residents can sleep. More people are breeding chickens because of dearer food, but the law allows only a dozen to be kept, with no cockerels. (AFP)

Spray that again . . .

VIENNA A woman wielding pepper spray injured herself and 18 others, many of them children, in a Vienna subway car when she attacked a man who complained that she was talking too loudly on her cell phone. The man was unhurt. (AP)

Stopped at the lights

PRAGUE David Brudnak, 33, a Czech artist, was fined 60,000 koruna (£1,925) for replacing the glass in pedestrian crossing lights with stencils of comical and vulgar figures. He was also ordered to pay 82,000 koruna in damages. (AFP)

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