A call received on Sunday evening, issuing a threat to Congress President Sonia Gandhi when she visits the state to attend the state Congress meet in Kochi on December 16, has sent the Kerela police into high alert mode.

Congress President will reach Kerela on December 15. She will stay in Kochi that day and address the PCC general body convention the next day to be attended by 5,000 party delegates.

Paris/Madrid - French police have arrested the suspected new head of the military wing of the Basque terrorist organization ETA only three weeks after capturing his predecessor, the French and Spanish interior ministries announced on Monday.

Aitzol Irionda Yarza, also known as Gurbita or Asier, and two alleged accomplices were taken into custody in the Pyrenean town of Bagneres-de-Bigorre, some 50 kilometres from Cautarets, where French police arrested ETA chief Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu, alias Txeroki, on November 17.

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Bogota  - A former FARC rebel's planned departure from Colombia to live in asylum in France was stopped at the last moment on Monday after the public prosecutor requested a delay.

Wilson Bueno Largo, alias Isaza, had fled a FARC camp in Colombia in October along with a hostage and was to fly to France with high- profile former hostage Ingrid Bentancourt on Monday.

But prosecutor Mario Iguaran asked for the stay in order to determine whether Isaza was guilty of kidnapping and to wait for a justice decision on his pardoning.

Los Angeles  - Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has put her luxurious home in Los Angeles' Bel Air neighbourhood up for sale for 8.5 million dollars in a move that suggests she could be leaving the west coast for New York, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

J-Lo, her singer husband, Marc Anthony, and their 9-month-old twins currently live in the French farmhouse-style home, but have been the subject of ongoing sightings in the Long Island community of Brookville.