Brussels - Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme faced growing calls to quit Thursday after his office was accused of trying to influence a court ruling on the sale of the country's troubled Fortis bank.

"Leterme wobbles" read the front-page headline of leading Flemish daily De Standaard.

"Leterme torpedos himself" said the French-language daily Le Soir.

London, Dec 18 : Caner-stricken Jade Goody, who is believed to have fallen behind with payments, is in danger of losing her Bentley Convertible.

A finance firm has started repossession proceedings.

The reality television star is fighting cervical cancer, reports the Mirror.

A spokesman for Lombard said: "An instruction to repossess has been issued as a last resort because of the failure by Miss Goody to meet the terms of the contract."

But her spokesman said: "While she was in hospital, someone else was making the payments and there seems to have been a mistake.

Paris - An appeals court in the eastern French city of Colmar on Thursday confirmed a 200,000-euro (292,000-dollar) fine imposed on Volvo for the deaths of two children in a 1999 accident.

The court found that the Volvo 850 TDI driven by a French teacher ran over the two children, aged 9 and 10, because its brakes had not functioned correctly.

The children had been on the way to school when the fatal accident occurred. A third child was seriously injured.

Paris - An appeals court in the eastern French city of Colmar on Thursday confirmed a 200,000-euro (292,000-dollar) fine imposed on Volvo for the deaths of two children in a 1999 accident.

The court found that the Volvo 850 TDI driven by a French teacher ran over the two children, aged 9 and 10, because its brakes had not functioned correctly.

The children had been on the way to school when the fatal accident occurred. A third child was seriously injured.

Zardari held a meeting with the tribal elders at the President House to take their suggestions about combating terror on Wednesday.

However, tribal elders expressed reservations about the US drone attacks and said innocent people were also being killed.

According to the Dawn, President Zardari is reported to have told tribal elders, "There is no alternative to fighting militancy because militants want to capture political power through the use of force to impose their own political agenda. This the government would never allow."

London - The British government confirmed Thursday that it has been in talks with the Indian-owned Jaguar Land Rover car producer over the possibility of state aid.

Confirmation of the talks from Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson came as figures published Thursday showed a 33-per-cent slump in car production in Britain in November, compared with the same month in 2007.

The Society of Motor Manufacturers (SMMT) said the rapid slowdown in output required "urgent support" to restore demand and relax credit restrictions.