Athens - In the latest of a series of attacks, rioters set fire to a local train in a posh Athens suburb, destroying three of six carriages, Greek news reports said Tuesday.

The protestors, who wore carnival masks and shouted anarchist slogans, threw firebombs into the ISAP local train when it arrived at its terminal station at Kifisia, a wealthy suburb of Athens, late Monday, Greek television said.

The few remaining passengers fled the station in panic. No one was injured, the reports said.

Kuala Lumpur  - A Malaysian man foiled his own attempted burglary when he left a trail of engine oil from a farm where he stole two generator sets back to his home, a news report said Tuesday.

The man was believed to have broken into the farm in the southern state of Johor early Sunday, and drove off with the generators, the Star daily said.

Farm owner Chia Kok Guan said workers found a trail of black oil on the dirt road, and followed it to a house located about 1 kilometre away.

Wellington  - A New Zealand pensioner fought off a 15-year-old intruder who broke a window at her Hamilton home in the early hours of the morning by hitting him over the head three times with a rolling pin, police said on Tuesday.

She called police who found the youth crying after he had wet his pants and tjat embarrassed that he virtually leapt into the patrol car, said Constable Chris Mankelow.

"He'd had a wee accident and stripped down to his boxers and was pretty keen to be taken away," the officer said.

Mexico City  - Armed groups carried out two simultaneous attacks Monday and injured four police officers in the Mexican town of Uruapan, in the northwestern state of Michoacan.

Michoacan authorities said hundreds of bullet holes were found in the home of Uruapan police boss Adolfo Medina Olivos, which was attacked with very powerful weapons. Two of the police officers guarding the site were injured, although their wounds were not life threatening.

Two other local police officers were injured in an attack on the Uruapan police headquarters.

Sana'a, Yemen  - The Yemeni coastguard thwarted a pirate attack on a South Korean cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, killing one pirate on Monday, Yemen's Interior Ministry reported.

A coastguard unit in the southern Yemeni port of Aden answered a distress call from the Korean ship that came under attack about 40 miles off Aden, the ministry said in a statement.

Pirates were closing in on the ship pointing rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launchers in an attempt to force it to stop as a dispatched coastguard gunboat reached the site, the ministry said.

"Coast guards exchanged fire with the Somali pirates and fatally shot one of them," it said, adding that the pirates fled the area and the ship was able to continue its journey.