World Highlights

• Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, 90, was put under house arrest yesterday for crimes including torture, murder and kidnapping in the years that followed his 1973 coup, a judge said.

• Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills have been ordered to stand trial on corruption charges. Milan magistrates had accused Mr Berlusconi of paying Dr Mills, who is the estranged husband of British Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, a kickback for not revealing details of Mr Berlusconi's media empire when he testified in two court cases.

• A string of blasts and car bombs killed more than 40 people in Baghdad alone, including 28 victims of an attack on poor labourers in the Shi'ite militia stronghold of Sadr City.

• Three people were killed and 24 wounded in near-simultaneous truck bomb attacks on two Algerian police stations, in what witnesses called the most elaborate assault by Islamist rebels in several years.