Islamabad  - Five low-intensity bombs on late Friday exploded outside two popular theatres in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, leaving half a dozen people injured and causing damage to nearby buildings, officials said.

"Two blasts occurred inside the courtyard of the Al-Falah theatre and a third near the main gate of the vicinity, while the fourth bomb exploded when the rescue workers reached the site," said Deputy Inspector General of Investigations Mushtaq Sukhera.

San Jose  - A Belgian family survived a 20-metre plunge after a viewing platform from where they were admiring a waterfall collapsed as a strong earthquake shook Costa Rica.

Survivor Tina Soterr told Costa Rican daily La Nacion Friday that everything happened very fast at the La Paz waterfalls in the town of Cinchona.

She and her partner were enjoying the scenery with their two children, aged 4 and 9, when the structure collapsed. They survived and were treated for bruises and scratches.

Berlin  - German porcelain maker Rosenthal filed for insolvency on Friday, four days after its Anglo-Irish parent Waterford Wedgwood announced that it had been placed into administration.

A spokeswoman for Rosenthal said that company did not possess sufficient liquidity to carry on normal operations despite being excluded from insolvency proceedings of Waterford Wedgwood.

Efforts by the board had failed to secure enough capital to enable the company to continue operating during an interim period until it is sold to a strategic investor, the spokeswoman added.

Berlin  - Christian Klar, 56, a former leftwing urban terrorist, has refused a trainee job at a taxpayer-funded Berlin theatre because he wants to stay out of the limelight, his lawyer Heinz-Juergen Schneider said Friday.

Klar was freed on parole on December 19 after serving 26 years of a life sentence for nine murders he committed as a co-leader of the Red Army Faction (RAF) revolutionary movement in the 1970s and 1980s.

Bratislava  - Slovakia was looking to get up to 10 million cubic metres of gas a day from European sources as the cut-off of Russian gas deliveries via Ukraine continued, an official said Friday.

Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek told reporters that the country was evaluating technical ways how to bring in gas from Poland as well as from storages of firms Gaz de France, E. ON and OMV.

Helsinki  - Explosives experts have defused a World War I hand grenade stored for years at a museum in the Aland Islands, located in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden.

Some 30 years ago, a woman found the Russian-made grenade when digging in her garden in Mariehamn, the only town on the islands, news agency STT reported.

She put the grenade, the size of an orange, in her car and drove off to the Aland Islands museum where museum staff since have kept it on various shelves believing it did not pose a danger.