A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Retrial sought in airline bomb plot case
LONDON- Prosecutors said they would seek a retrial in the case of seven British men accused of plotting to smuggle liquid explosives on to transatlantic flights and blow them up.
The move comes after a jury was unable to agree to convict the seven on the most serious of the charges made against them during a five- month trial that ended on Monday.
After 56 hours of deliberation, the jury found three of the men guilty of a lesser charge of conspiring to kill using liquid explosives.
However, the jury was not convinced by the prosecution's case that they intended to blow up aircraft travelling from Heathrow airport to Canada and the United States. - ( Reuters)
Israeli military helicopter crash
JERUSALEM- An Israeli military helicopter crashed in northern Israel yesterday.
Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service confirmed that there were casualties. It was not immediately clear what caused the aircraft to crash near the northern town of Beit She'an near the border with Jordan. - ( Reuters)
Sarkozy to review database security
PARIS- French president Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered a review of a security database containing personal details on public figures after protests by civil rights groups and questions from within his own government.
The Edvige database, which holds information on people active in political and civil life, has drawn opposition since it was approved in July. - ( Reuters)
China mudslide death toll rises
BEIJING- The death toll from a massive mudslide caused by the collapse of a mine waste reservoir after heavy rain two days ago has risen to 128 people.
Sludge blanketed fields and houses for several kilometres below the Tashan mine, where about 2,200 people were still searching for survivors, reports said. - ( Reuters)
Consultants who lost data sacked
LONDON- A management consultancy which lost a computer data stick containing the names, addresses and expected release dates of all the 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has had its contract with the British home office terminated.
Home secretary Jacqui Smith announced she was terminating PA Consulting's £1.5 million contract to keep track of persistent offenders in the criminal justice system and was reviewing its other contracts with her department, valued at £8 million a year. - ( Guardian service)
• Rock outsiders Elbow have joined music's elite after winning the prestigious Nationwide Mercury Prize for their fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid.
The band beat 11 other nominees including rapper Estelle, jazz singer Adele and indie band Radiohead to the £20,000 prize at a ceremony hosted by musician Jools Holland on Monday night.
"I know I'm supposed to be cool and say something coy, but this is quite literally the best thing that's ever happened to us," Elbow lead singer Guy Garvey said in an acceptance speech.
The five-piece band formed in Bury, northwest England, in 1991.