A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Nurse accused of murder found dead
A nurse found dead at home eight months before she was due to go on trial for the murder of three patients may have killed many more, police said yesterday.
Anne Grigg-Booth (52) was due to go on trial next April but was found dead at her home in Nelson, Lancashire, on Monday.
She was accused of murdering three elderly women at Airedale General Hospital, near Keighley, where she had worked for 25 years and the attempted murder of a middle-aged man.
She was also facing 13 counts of unlawfully administering poison to 12 other patients. - (PA)
Clarke to contest leadership
LONDON - Speculation was last night mounting that former chancellor Kenneth Clarke is to formally announce he is to stand for the Tory leadership.
Mr Clarke will hold talks with supporters in his Westminster office this morning. And he is to deliver a key speech tomorrow. That has heightened speculation that he could officially announce he is to make a third bid for the Conservative leadership. - (PA)
Livingstone may be reprimanded
LONDON - Ken Livingstone is to face a disciplinary hearing for likening a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard, it was announced yesterday.
The London mayor is to appear before the independent Adjudication Panel for England to face allegations that he failed to treat others with respect or brought his office into disrepute, the Standards Board for England, the local government watchdog said.
Mr Livingstone could be banned from office for five years, told to make an apology, suspended, made to undergo training or censured, if the panel decide he has breached the Greater London Authority code of conduct. The public hearing could take place in early December. - (PA)
Britain to get tough on porn
LONDON - Viewing violent pornographic images on the internet could become illegal in Britain under proposals issued by the government yesterday.
"We are talking about material of the most serious and extreme kind: serious sexual violence, bestiality, necrophilia," said junior Home Office minister Paul Goggins.
"These are extreme images, they have no place in a decent society and we believe it's the responsibility of government to make sure the possession of this material is made illegal," he told BBC radio. UK-based websites are already banned from publishing such material, but foreign websites fall outside the legislation. - (Reuters)
Arabs 'embedded' by marrying in US
WASHINGTON - At least 17 Arab men convicted or linked to terrorism obtained US citizenship or permanent residency by marrying American women in the past 15 years, according to a report yesterday that urged better enforcement of immigration laws.
The report by Janice Kephart, a former counsel to the commission that investigated the September 11th, 2001, attacks on the United States, said at least nine of the marriages were sham, designed solely to allow the men to "embed themselves" and operate freely in the US. - (Reuters)
UN concern over Nepal disappeared
KATHMANDU - The UN said yesterday it was alarmed by the rising number of disappearances in Nepal's civil war and blamed both government troops and Maoist rebels.
"The problem of disappearances continues to be a serious concern," said Ian Martin, chief of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal.- (Reuters)