A busy bridge in central Indonesia has collapsed, killing at least three people and injuring scores of others.

Police Captain Syafii Nafsikin said search and rescue teams have rushed to the scene.

Many cars and trucks were on the concrete bridge in East Kalimantan province when yesterday’s accident occurred.

It wasn’t immediately clear why the 10-year-old bridge collapsed. (PA)

Police injured in protest

German police say 20 officers have been injured during clashes with protesters ahead of the arrival of a shipment of nuclear waste in the north of the country.

Police say some 300 protesters threw stones and fireworks at security officers near the town of Dannenberg.

It followed a clash on Friday night when police used water cannon and batons to keep some 200 protesters in check. The officers were injured during the clash. The protests occurred near the railway tracks used by a train this weekend to transport the nuclear waste shipment, reprocessed in France, to a storage site near the town of Gorleben.

Some 20,000 officers are on hand in the region to secure the shipment.

Officials have yet to resolve where such waste should be stored permanently. Activists say that Gorleben is unsafe. (PA)

Phone hacking suspected

Disgraced ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn suspected that a smartphone which disappeared just before his arrest on sexual assault charges in New York had been hacked, associates said yesterday.

Several sources close to Strauss-Kahn told AFP he had told his wife Anne Sinclair that “something serious” had happened as he was on his way to the airport to return to France.

Strauss-Kahn, who was taken off the plane following a complaint by a hotel maid that he had attacked her, was referring to the loss of his phone and his suspicions that it might have been hacked, the sources said. (AFP)

Yemeni warplanes attack

Yemeni warplanes have killed 80 anti-government tribesmen who overran part of a military camp in the Arhab region north of the capital Sanaa.

A security official said today that warplanes and artillery had pounded the armed tribesmen for the past 48 hours.

There was no independent confirmation of the number of deaths. But a soldier from Yemen’s 63rd Brigade who fled the camp said tribesmen had overrun it several days ago.

The soldier said about 20 soldiers were killed by the tribesmen. (PA)

Bank executives sacked

A Spanish savings bank has sacked two of its most senior directors and is investigating two former executives for allegedly siphoning off €20 million into secret pension funds.

The board of directors of Caixa Penedes bank had also “required the departure” of its president, Ricard Pages, and director general Manuel Troyano. Both men have agreed to leave.

The decision comes after state prosecutor for Catalonia, Teresa Compte, said her office was investigating all four on suspicion of involvement in illegal activity. (PA)