A roundup of today's other world stories in brief:
Man who says he sent letter bomb arrested
LONDON- British police said yesterday they had arrested a 48-year-old man who claimed to have sent one of a series of letter bombs in recent weeks.
Anton Setchell, the police national co-ordinator for domestic extremism, said the man had been detained on Thursday under the Mental Health Act after he called a radio station to claim responsibility for a letter bomb in Wokingham, southern England, on Tuesday.
Six people were hurt in Swansea, south Wales, on Wednesday by the seventh letter bomb in a three-week campaign.
- (Reuters)
DNA test on Smith refused
LOS ANGELES -A Los Angeles judge yesterday refused to order an emergency DNA test on the remains of Anna Nicole Smith but required that her body be preserved until a February 20th hearing in the paternity case surrounding her baby, lawyers said.
Smith's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, had sought the emergency order within hours of the 39-year-old model's death as he tries to prove that he is the father of five-month-old Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider ruled during a hearing that there was no need for the emergency DNA test on Smith because an autopsy was being conducted on her body in Florida.
The cause of Smith's death remained a mystery last night despite the autopsy. Medical examiner Dr Joshua Perper said physical trauma had been ruled out.
But natural causes or a reaction to medication remained possibilities.
Peru president questioned
LIMA -Peruvian president Alan Garcia was questioned by a judge for three hours yesterday about a 1986 prison massacre of leftist guerrilla suspects during his first term as president.
More than 100 suspected Maoist guerrillas were killed at El Fronton, an island prison off the coast of Lima, when marines were sent in to quell an insurrection on June 19th, 1986.
- (Reuters)