Dhaka  -At least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured as Bangladeshi paramilitary border troops rebelled against their commanders on Wednesday.

One civilian and two army officers were killed and 14 other people injured in the fighting which stopped after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed announced a general amnesty for the rebel troops.

Amsterdam  - The Turkish Airlines plane that crashed near Schiphol airport on Wednesday, leaving nine dead and more than 50 injured, was the sixth major air crash in the Netherlands in the last 30 years.

On September 25, 1996, 32 people died when a Dakota DC3 PH-DDA from Schiphol crashed in the sea near Den Helder.

Just three months earlier, on July 15, 1996, a Lockheed C130 Hercules CH-06 belonging to the Belgian airforce crashed at the military airport at Eindhoven. Thirty-four people died.

Wellington  - New Zealander Nadya Vessey, who lost her legs in a childhood illness, now swims like a mermaid - thanks to Oscar-winning movie special effects wizards Weta Workshop, according to news reports on Wednesday.

The workshop, which won Oscars for their effects on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, made a mermaid wetsuit for her, complete with fishtail, which she tested in a Wellington pool.

Buenos Aires  - The Catholic bishop who is at the centre of a global storm of controversy over his denial of the Holocaust left Argentina Tuesday for London, local media reported.

Under pressure from the Jewish community and other groups, the Argentina government had asked Richard Williamson to leave the country by early March or face mandatory expulsion.

Erfurt, Germany  - German police have arrested the principal suspect after a neo-Nazi attack on leftists in a highway rest area, police in the city of Erfurt said Tuesday, but they are still hunting for a Swedish man thought to have taken part in the beating.

Germans were shocked by the February 14 roadside attack, just hours after 10,000 leftists and pacifists had mounted a counter-demonstration in Dresden against a procession by 6,000 far rightists.

Participants on both sides gathered from all over Germany and beyond in Germany.

Mosul  - At least three US soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded in Iraq after men dressed in Iraqi police uniforms shot at them near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the US military confirmed on Tuesday night.

The US military denied earlier conflicting reports of US soldiers killed in the attack.

A source in the Mosul police force had earlier said that two US soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter working with them had been fatally shot near a bridge just outside Mosul.