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Jamaica: Police treating Woolmer death as 'suspicious'
Jamaican police are treating the death of the Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer as "suspicious", a Pakistan team spokesman said today.
The Pakistan team were holding a hastily convened news conference late tonight local time in Kingston following an earlier briefing that post mortem findings were "inconclusive".
Jamaican police have confirmed that investigators have said the coach was murdered, according to the Times Now website (English news channel broadcast only in the South Asian region).
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Russia: Rescue hopes dwindle at blast mine
Rescuers said today hope was fading of finding anybody alive in a Siberian coal mine where 107 people died in Russia's worst mining disaster in living memory - three people are still missing.
President Vladimir Putin announced a day of mourning on Thursday for those who died in three Russian disasters which have killed at least 175 people over three days - 62 people were killed overnight in a fire at an old people's home and six who died in a weekend plane crash.
Among the dead was a visiting Briton, who was doing a coal reserves audit underground when an explosion wrecked the mine.
Russia's Emergencies Minister said the blast was caused by methane or coal dust.
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United Nations: Russia worried over Iran's nuclear ambition
Russia today vigorously denied a New York Times story which said Moscow had told Tehran that unless it suspend uranium enrichment Russia would withhold fuel for a light water reactor being built in southern Iran.
Russian officials have said a dispute over payments is behind delays with the US$1 billion reactor. But John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, believes that is just an excuse and that in reality Russia fears that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons programme.
The 15-nation UN Security Council is discussing a draft resolution imposing an embargo on exports of conventional weapons and a freeze of assets on a list of Iranian officials and institutions.
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- NZ HERALD STAFF/REUTERS
