Hong Kong  - Hong Kong's former head of civil engineering has been arrested over an alleged multi-million US dollar corruption case involving government highway contracts, a news report said Saturday.

Twenty people have been arrested for alleged corruption in the tendering of highway contracts in the former British colony, according to the city's Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Among those arrested, according to Saturday's South China Morning Post, is retired director of civil engineering Tsao Tak-kiang.

Mexico City  - A former mayor of Michoacan state and the homicide department chief of Jalisco state were killed Friday in Mexico in the continuing endless wave of violence.

Police said former mayor Nicolas Leon Hernandez had been shot in the face and his body bore signs of torture. Also attached to his body was a message, apparently signed by La Familia Michoacana, one of the top six Mexican drug cartels.

Hernandez served two terms as mayor of the port of Lazaro Cardenas on the Pacific, some 550 kilometres southwest of Mexico City.

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Sana'a, Yemen  - A villager opened fire indiscriminately during his daughter's wedding party in southern Yemen on Friday, killing two young women and injuring four others including the bride, police sources said.

The gunman, identified as Hamoud Ahmed Obaid, rampaged with an AK- 47 rifle during the ceremony in the Ga'afaria village of the southern Dalea province, the sources told the German Press Agency dpa.

The two victims, aged 15 and 20, were killed on spot, and four others were rushed to hospitals in a nearby town.

Police arrested the assailant, and he was being interrogated, they said. His motives were not immediately clear.

London, April 3: A new study has warned that Britain is breeding a generation of computer hackers with one in three teenagers admitting that they would commit cyber crimes for money.

According to a report in the Telegraph, a third of those polled said they would consider hacking or spying on the Internet if they could earn money by doing so.

The survey, which polled 1,000 children and parents across the Britain, was undertaken by Internet security firm Trend Micro.

Athens  - Two policemen were shot and seriously wounded by unknown attackers in central Athens, reports said Friday.

It was not clear whether the shooting of the two policemen, who were on duty in a suburb in central Athens, was politically motivated.

In January, another officer was seriously wounded by a gunshot wounded inflicted while guarding Greece's minister of culture, weeks after the killing of a teenager by police.