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I'll be different if re-elected, promises Sarkozy

FRENCH leader Nicolas Sarkozy promised yesterday to be a "different president" if re-elected, conceding he had acted too impulsively at times in his first term.

Tunnelling thieves caught just yards from jewellers

By Nick Squires in Rome

A gang spent a month painstakingly digging a 1,000-yard tunnel with the aim of robbing a cluster of Italian jewellers, only to be caught feet from their target.

Kremlin was told Putin might be corrupt

By Tom Parfitt in Moscow

THE Kremlin was warned 20 years ago not to appoint Vladimir Putin to "any other positions" until a corruption scandal had been resolved, according to documents released on the internet.

Thusha Kamaleswaran wanted to become a professional dancer

Video: Six-year-old paralysed in a gang shooting tells of her terror she might be hurt again

By Diana Pilkington

A LITTLE girl left paralysed after being gunned down in a gang-related shooting has told of her fears of being hurt again.

Athletes 'must be welcome at Games'

As International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspectors began their last visit before the Games, the British prime minister also warned that any Syrian Olympic officials who had been targeted by sanctions against the regime would not be welcome.

Actress 'fraudulently' applied for car permit

By Ruth Lumley in London

Actress Donna Air (pictured) fraudulently applied for a permit to avoid £5,000 (€5,960) in on-street parking charges, a London court has heard.

Facebook flirt, 47, jailed over sex with boy, 15, in Jeep

A MARRIED woman has been jailed for having sex with a 15-year-old boy in the back of her Jeep after flirting with him on Facebook.

Travellers face Spain air chaos

By Allison Bray

THOUSANDS of Irish air passengers face travel chaos tomorrow as Spanish workers down tools as part of a national general strike.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

Push for gay rights could split Britain, says Williams

By John Bingham in London

A fixation with homosexual rights, feminism and separate racial identities is threatening to "fragment" British society, the Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed.

Six months to fix North Sea gas leak

By Steve Connor in Aberdeen

It could take another six months for oil engineers to drill a relief well to the leaking gasfield beneath the offshore platform in the North Sea that was evacuated after toxic gas reached dangerous levels and became highly inflammable.