Stockholm attack: 'Suspect device' in Sweden crash lorry
Swedish police have confirmed they discovered a suspect device inside the lorry which was driven into a Stockholm department store on Friday.
The "technical device" was found in the driver's seat of the vehicle, National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson said.
At this stage, he said it was impossible to know what it was - only that "it should not be there".
Mr Eliasson also said the suspect in custody was from Uzbekistan, 39, and known to security services.
However, he had only been seen as a "marginal character", the commissioner added.
The man remains their principal suspect in the attack, which saw a hijacked lorry driven into the front of Ahlens department store on Drottninggatan (Queen Street), one of the city's main pedestrian thoroughfares.
Sweden lorry attack: Terror suspect known to intelligence services, police reveal
A man arrested on suspicion of killing at least four people in a terror attack in Stockholm was known to security services, police have said.
The 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan was arrested hours after the massacre in Sweden on suspicion of murder and terror offences.
Local media reported that he had expressed support for Isis on social media but prosecutors would not confirm any link with the group.
Anders Thornberg, head of the Swedish Security Service, said the unnamed suspect had been on authorities’ radar some time ago. Is Assad to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria?
Is the regime of President Bashar al-Assad responsible for the chemical weapons attack in northern Syria? Experts suggest it could have been jihadi rebels. It wouldn't be the first time.
More than 80 people were killed by suspected chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun. That is about the only thing certain about the attack. Western statements place blame at the feet of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, an accusation Damascus and Moscow contest.
The Syrian regime may not have had a compelling motive, believes Günther Meyer, the director of the Research Center for the Arab World at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. "Only armed opposition groups could profit from an attack with chemical weapons," he told DW. "With their backs against the wall, they have next to no chance of opposing the regime militarily. As President [Donald] Trump's recent statements show, such actions make it possible for anti-Assad groups to receive further support."
Basque separatists ETA deliver weapons inventory to French police on 'Disarmament Day'
The Basque separatist group ETA has given the French police a list of 12 arms caches in southwestern France under its unilateral initiative to disarm, informed sources told AFP on Saturday.
The caches are located in the departments, or counties, of the Gers, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées, they said. The French interior ministry said that the so-called "Disarmament Day" was "incontestably important" and a "major step".
ETA announced earlier this week that it would hand over all its remaining weapons by Saturday, a move bringing the final curtain down on its armed campaign for a Basque homeland.
The group, founded in 1959, has been blamed for the deaths of 829 people in a string of bombings and shootings dating back to 1968.
Japanese scientists want to be first to drill into the Earth's mantle
Updated 0021 GMT (0821 HKT) April 8, 2017
Humans have been to the Moon and explored almost every corner of the planet -- but there's one place they have never been.
A group of Japanese scientists said they plan to be the first group to successfully drill into the Earth's mantle, the planet's vast molten-rock interior, which lies just beneath the outer crust.
Researchers at Japan's Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) say they are hoping to discover more about how our planet was formed and what the mantle is composed of. Japanese media first reported on the project earlier this week.
Where are journalists under attack?
From Africa and Asia to Latin America and Europe, reporters are being killed with impunity simply for doing their jobs.
Nouran Mohamed El Hilali | | Journalism Matters, Press Freedom, Journalism, Asia, Africa
On January 12, 2016, Saif Talal, a correspondent for the independent Iraqi television channel Al Sharqiya, was returning to Baquba after a reporting trip when gunman stopped the car he was travelling in.
Talal had been covering the aftermath of twin bombings that killed 20 people.
The gunmen forced Talal and his cameraman, Hassan al-Anbaki, from the car and shot them dead.
Talal and al-Anbaki were among the first journalists that year to be killed on the job.
Below is a series of data that maps journalist killings over the past decade.
Over the year, according to figures gathered by UNESCO, at least 100 journalists were killed in 2016 - making it one of the bloodiest years in recent memory.
As World Press Freedom Day approaches on May 3, media workers will remember their fallen colleagues.
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