Jakarta - A court in Indonesia's Papua province on Thursday jailed five Australians for two and three years in prison for landing a plane illegally, a prosecutor said.
The five Australians were arrested in September after landing a small plane in the Papuan district of Merauke. The plane departed from Australia's Horn Island.
Judges at the Merauke district court sentenced the pilot, William Scott-Bloxam, to three years in prison and fined him 50 million rupiah (4,550 dollars), said prosecutor Rifky Firmansyah.
Zamboanga City, Philippines - Three members of the International Committee of the Red Cross, including a Swiss national, were abducted by unidentified gunmen in the southern Philippines on Thursday.
The Red Cross team was lead by Andrea Notter, a Swiss citizen, according to Lieutenant General Nelson Allaga, a regional military commander.
The identities of the other team members have not yet been confirmed.
Allaga said the Red Cross workers were supposed to board a flight out of Jolo island, 1,000 kilometres south of Manila, but they did not make it.
"We immediately issued an alarm, and hot pursuit is ongoing to track down the kidnappers," he said.
Madrid - Recently, a man with his face partly covered by a cap and scarf entered room 537 at a hospital in the Spanish capital Madrid.
"Are you Leonidas Vargas?" he asked one of the two patients in the room with a South American accent. The patient pointed to the man sleeping in the other bed.
"Turn your back and keep quiet," the visitor instructed, turned towards the other patient, and shot him four times with a gun equipped with a silencer.
Phnom Penh - Cambodian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a Canadian man who allegedly sexually abused two young girls in the costal resort town of Sihanoukville.
Police arrested 68-year-old Daniel Lavigne on a tourist bus travelling from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh on Monday after he allegedly sexually abused two sisters aged 10 and 12.
Regional migration police chief Som Saruen said Lavigne had confessed to "indecent acts" against the children but denied having sexual intercourse with them.
Islamabad - Gunmen on Wednesday opened fire on a police vehicle in Pakistan's insurgency-hit Balochistan province, killing four law enforcers, including a senior officer, police said.
The attackers, riding a motorcycle, sprayed the pick-up truck with bullets on a main artery of Quetta, the provincial capital, when two officers along with three constables were moving towards a training school.
"Four policemen, including a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), were killed," a junior official, Mohammad Ali, said over the phone. The other DSP was critically injured, with a bullet wound in his head, Ali added.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Zamboanga City, Philippines - One prisoner was killed while 12 inmates, including a suspected Muslim militant, escaped in a jailbreak in the southern Philippines, police said.
The prisoners dug a tunnel out of their cell at the Sulu provincial jail in Patikul town on Jolo island, 1,000 kilometres south of Manila. They escaped before dawn on Tuesday.
Senior Superintendent Julasirim Kasim, provincial police director, said the inmates dug the tunnel with the help of residents living near the jail.
Kasim said one of the inmates was killed when jail guards shot at him as he went into the tunnel.
"A wide-scale manhunt operation is on to track down and recapture the remaining inmates," he said.
Jakarta - A court in Indonesia's Papua province on Thursday jailed five Australians for two and three years in prison for landing a plane illegally, a prosecutor said.
Madrid - Recently, a man with his face partly covered by a cap and scarf entered room 537 at a hospital in the Spanish capital Madrid.
Phnom Penh - Cambodian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a Canadian man who allegedly sexually abused two young girls in the costal resort town of Sihanoukville.
