Amsterdam - A decision to evacuate, search and seal an entire Amsterdam shopping area Thursday was taken after what now appeared to be a dubious phone call by an anonymous informant warning of a terrorist attack, it emerged Friday.

Five of the seven people arrested Thursday on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack at the mall were released on Friday, the Dutch Justice ministry said.

Two suspects remained in police detention - one suspected not of terrorist activities but other crimes, police said.

Stockholm - A German woman sentenced to life for beating to death two young children in Sweden appealed her conviction Friday to the Supreme Court.

Christine Schuerrer has been convicted by two courts, most recently in February, of killing a three-year-old boy and one-year- old girl and seriously injuring their mother in an attack on March 17, 2008.

Her lawyer Per-Ingvar Ekblad said he wanted the Supreme Court to rule on the evidence and the definition of "beyond reasonable doubt," the online edition of the VLT newspaper reported.

Valletta, Malta - International relief agency Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) on Friday said it had suspended its work at migrant detention centres in Malta, to protest the "unhygienic, inhuman and alarming" conditions there.

MSF's announcement came just hours ahead of the European Union's top justice official Jacques Barrot's visit to review conditions faced by would-be immigrants on the Mediterranean island.

Amsterdam/Duisburg, Germany  - Giovanni Strangio had for months lived a modest life in the anonymity of Amsterdam until a careless error put police on his trail.

A German environmental sticker issued for a Peugeot car registered in the name of a 48-year-old contact person in Frankfurt led investigators to the suspected Mafia hit-man.

Late on Thursday evening Strangio, his wife, their young son and another man named Francesco Romeo were taken into custody at an apartment in the Amsterdam suburb of Diemen.

Cologne, Germany - Rescuers Thursday located another body in the rubble of the Cologne city archive nine days after it collapsed, dragging two other buildings with it.

It was not immediately clear whose body it was, they said. Rescuers had been searching for a 24-year-old man, identified only as Khalil G., missing since the collapse.

They said the body would take a long time to removed, as it was located nine metres below ground level. It had been located by sniffer dogs.

Moscow  - Several opposition activist and three reporters were arrested during anti-Kremlin demonstrations in Moscow Thursday, radio Ekho Moskvye reported.

Organizers announced their gathering at the central Tverskaya metro station, but the main protest were held on a stretch of Moscow's ring road as activists tried to avoid police crackdowns on the unsanctioned demonstrations.