Bomb, propane tanks found at Colorado mall

Investigators want to question a person of interest concerning a pipe bomb and propane tanks found after a fire at a Littleton mall, a discovery that raised the option of an association to the Columbine butchery anniversary.

Firefighters set up two propane tanks and the bomb near the Southwest Plaza Mall's food court after a small fire broke out Wednesday that was swiftly squelched. The mall was evacuated around noon. No one was wounded and the bombs didn't explode.

Wednesday was the 12th centenary of the shooting rampage at nearby Columbine High School and official’s spoken concern that the mall incident could be someway linked.

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Egypt unrest enters third day, ElBaradei to return

Activists annoying to expel Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak played cat-and-mouse with police on the streets into the early on hours of Thursday, as unparalleled protests against his 30-year rule enter a third day.

Prominent reform activist Mohamed ElBaradei, who lives in Vienna, was predictable to go back to Egypt on Thursday, an influx that could rouse protest that so far have lacked a leader.

At least three protesters and one policeman have died in clash since they erupt on Tuesday. The protests, encouraged by a popular revolt in Tunisia and exceptional during Mubarak's strong-handed rule, have seen police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators throw rocks and petrol bombs.

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North Korea has built sophisticated uranium enrichment facility, US scientist says

The news raise fears that the secretive regime is capable of increasing its atomic programmed despite years of international stress.

Siegfried Hecker, an ex- director of the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory, returned last week from a visit to the Yongbyon complex, where he was shown a small-scale manufacturing uranium enrichment facility that was "astonishingly modern" and would "would fit into any modern American dispensation facility".

North Korean officials told him the plant contained 2,000 centrifuges calculated to manufacture uranium for civilian nuclear power, though he completed the centrifuges "could be readily converted to manufacture highly enrich uranium bomb fuel".

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'Bomb' found on Germany-bound plane in Namibia, police say

A supposed bomb, total with detonator and stopwatch, was exposed during a custom security check on luggage intended for a Germany-bound aeroplane in Namibia on Wednesday.

The package was naked in the terminal building of Windhoek International Airport before long before it was due to be encumbered onto an Air Berlin plane bound for Munich.

A spokesman for Germany’s Federal Crime Office (BKA) said it was still uncertain if the pack up could have been detonating.

On Wednesday, Germany upped its security threat level after being warned by an intellect ally about a likely terrorist attack towards the end of the month.

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US troops withdraw from Iraq despite fears over violence

The last group of vanguard American troops poured over the Iraqi border into Kuwait, marking the end of US battle operations despite rising violence and a lack of performance government in the country.

Under strict ready secrecy, 1,200 troops of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, passed over the Khabari border crossing just before dawn. Thousands additional were flown out of the country.

President Barack Obama marked the occasion with an open letter in which he persisted he would stick to his schedule for a final removal of military aid by the end of 2011, despite widespread anxiety over the deteriorating security condition.

A bomb on Tuesday killed 59 men queuing to link the army at a major base in Baghdad, just a few days following the Iraqi chief of staff called on American forces to stay put in the country until 2020.

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