London  - A British postmaster born in Sri Lanka has caused a stir by declaring that he will refuse to serve customers in his shop if they do not speak English.

Deva Kumarasiri, who came to Britain from Sri Lanka 18 years ago, runs the Sneinton Boulevard Post Office in Nottingham, central Britain.

"If somebody stands up and says 'sorry, I can't serve you if you can't speak English', then they'll think twice," he said.

Berlin  - Elisabeth Fritzl suffered an unimaginable ordeal, held for 24 years in a cramped, windowless cellar, behind a secret door locked with a code only her father Josef knew.

From the age of 18, when Fritzl lured her into the dungeon he had meticulously prepared, Elisabeth was raped around 3,000 times by her father, and gave birth to seven children.

Amman  - The trial of prominent Jordanian columnist Khaled Mahadin who has been charged with "slandering" the lower house of Parliament got under way on Thursday, according to judicial sources.

The chamber's Permanent Bureau last week filed a lawsuit against Mahadin, accusing him of defaming the House of Representatives in a recent online newspaper article.

Mahadin, 63, denied the charge, saying that he had "only criticized the house's performance." The case was adjourned to March 30.

Washington  - The United States has deported to Austria an accused Nazi war criminal who settled in Wisconsin following World War II, the US Justice Department announced Thursday.

Josias Kumpf, 83, allegedly served as as guard as a member of the SS-Death Head division and participated in the November 3, 1943 massacre of 8,000 Jews at the Trawniki labour camp in Poland. He was also a guard at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Germany.

St Poelten, Austria - Josef Fritzl was found guilty Thursday of murder through neglect and sentenced to lifelong imprisonment, for the death of a baby he fathered with his daughter Elisabeth, in a windowless dungeon below his house.

The 73-year-old Austrian was also found guilty on all other counts of slavery, rape, incest and false imprisonment, charges he had confessed to Wednesday.

An eight-member jury unanimously reached the guilty verdict on the fourth day of the trial that was held in the town of St Poelten in the province of Lower Austria.

Los Angeles  - Two of the octuplets born in January to single mother Nadya Suleman were enjoying their first day at home Wednesday, hours after a raucous reception from paparazzi might have made the hospital seem calm.

The photographers and other onlookers clung to Suleman's vehicle as it drove up to the suburban Los Angeles home through a throng of hundreds awaiting the arrival of the celebrity babies and their controversial mother.