Britain Police arrested four men in pre-dawn swoops in the English city of Birmingham as they gained ground in a massive terror hunt after last week's botched attempt to blow up three London Underground trains and a double-decker bus in London. Britain British police detained a man under anti-terrorism laws as he prepared to travel on a flight from Luton airport north of London to the southern French city of Nimes. Netherlands Prosecutors said Mohammed Bouyeri, the convicted murderer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was jailed for life on Tuesday, will now also be formally charged with belonging to the so-called Hofstad group, which the prosecution claims is a terrorist organisation. India At least 99 people were reported killed and more than 100 were trapped as India's heaviest ever recorded day of rainfall triggered landslides and building collapses in the western state of Maharashtra, a government official said. US External cameras began examining the spacecraft Discovery for damage after NASA noticed falling debris during liftoff that marked the resumption of the shuttle program after the 2003 Columbia disaster. Nigeria Nigerian police routinely murder, torture and rape suspects in order to extract confessions and cover up their own corruption, the US-based pressure group Human Rights Watch said. NKorea North Korea offered to dismantle its nuclear weapons if the United States normalises relations and pledges not to topple the Stalinist regime. Iran Iran has decided to end its suspension of sensitive uranium ore conversion activities regardless of what proposals the European Union makes in the next few days to try and dissuade it, outgoing reformist President Mohammad Khatami said. France A verdict was expected in the biggest ever paedophile trial in French legal history, in which 65 men and women are accused of the rape and sexual abuse of children as young as a few months old. China Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe revelled in his red carpet welcome by China, as other countries pressed for a UN Security Council meeting on his slum demolition drive. Cyprus Eighteen Greek Cypriot soldiers were injured when an armour-piercing artillery round accidentally exploded during a training exercise at an army camp near the southern town of Larnaca, officials said. EU The European Union welcomed a continent-wide ban on tobacco advertising that will take effect this week as it prepares to phase out subsidies to growers from next year.