Police in Britain have launched an investigation after a nurse missing for more than a week was found alive in the boot of a car.
Magdeline Makola, originally from South Africa, had not been seen since December 15 when she left the car park of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where she works as a nurse.
She was found by police in the boot of a car last Friday and taken to hospital with minor injuries.
"At the moment this inquiry is at its very early stages, and we need to establish the exact circumstances of how Magdeline came to be within the boot of the vehicle," Lothian and Borders Police said in a statement.
"We are appealing for anyone who may have seen Magdeline since she went missing last week to contact us."
Suicide bomber kills five in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed three Afghan police officers and two civilians, and wounded four others in the southern province of Kandahar yesterday, a senior police official said.
The suicide bomber was on foot when he detonated the device on the outskirts of Kandahar City near a highway connecting Kandahar to western Afghanistan, about 400 km (250 miles) southwest of the capital Kabul.
The policemen were driving in a military vehicle on the highway when the suicide bomber struck, the police official said. It was not immediately clear whether the bomber was among the victims.
MP3 player saves lost tourists
The light from an MP3 player saved two lost tourists from a chilly night stuck out in the snowy Swiss mountains. The two - a skier and snowboarder, both from France - had got lost late in the day on Friday outside marked runs near the resort of Savognin in southeast Switzerland, said Gery Baumann, spokesman for mountain rescue service Rega.
They were able to alert authorities using a mobile phone, but it then ran out of battery power, Baumann said. "The two winter sports enthusiasts were found by the crew of the Rega helicopter shortly after midnight - thanks to the faint light of their MP3 player," he said.
China explosion: at least 32 dead
An explosion rocked a Chinese village and a construction lift plummeted to the ground in a provincial capital yesterday, killing at least 32 people, the official Xinhua news agency said.
The blast in Donggancheng village, in central Henan province, happened just after 1 a.m. when detonators being illegally stored by a villager were set off, Xinhua said, citing officials with the local work safety office.
The explosion flattened more than 10 homes, killing at least 15 people and injured nine others, Xinhua said. Police have detained the owner of the house where the blast occurred, which he had rented out, it added.
Separately, a lift carrying workers at a residential develop-ment being built in Changsha, Hunan province, crashed to the ground at around 7.30 a.m., killing at least 17 people and seriously injuring another, Xinhua said.