A former high-ranking leftist rebel and two collaborators pleaded guilty to providing support to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
The two collaborators, Ana Isabel Pena Arevalo and Luz Mery Gutierrez Vergara, joined Nancy Conde Rubio in admitting to conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terror organisation.
Rubio's federal court plea in Washington to the same charge came a couple of weeks ago, six months after she was extradited from Colombia. (PA)
Hope for Cyprus reunification
Cyprus wants the US to press Turkey to help reunify the divided island.
Foreign Minister Markos Kyp-rianou outlined for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the developments in talks.
Cyprus was divided into a Greek Cypriot south and a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north in 1974, when Turkey invaded after a short-lived coup in Nicosia by supporters of union with Greece. (PA)
Police officer commits suicide
Authorities said a police officer in Puerto Rico committed suicide after shooting and critically wounding his girlfriend.
Police spokeswoman Maria del Pilar Bon said that 42-year-old officer Jose Gomez Gonzalez had served as bodyguard for Governor Pedro Rosello after Mr Rosello had left office.
They said 35-year-old Veronica Martinez Velez was shot several times after the couple began fighting at their home in the northern coastal town of Arecibo. (PA)
Military satellite launch delayed
The deployment of a civilian and a military communication satellite from French Guiana was postponed because of problems with the launcher.
Officials with Arianespace said it will take several days to replace the part, delaying the Ariane 5 rocket's scheduled launch of the Astra 3B and the ComsatBw-2 satellites.
The Astra 3B will provide direct-to-home broadcast services and two-way broadband services across Europe and the Middle East. (PA)
Reporter kicked out
A reporter for the US television network CNN was deported from Burma for the second time in two years.
Dan Rivers, who was in the capital city Naypyitaw to cover Armed Forces Day - one of the few events which the ruling junta invites foreign journalists to cover - will be deported because he is on a blacklist for illicitly reporting from the country in May 2008, an Information Ministry official said.
Rivers was one of the few Western journalists to openly report on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis - which left 138,000 people dead or missing - and was kicked out after several days. (PA)
Dead Hungarian skydiver named
US authorities said a skydiver who died after crashing through the roof of a Texas condominium was a 34-year-old Hungarian national.
Port Aransas police said Peter Gerencser died after falling through the roof of the Gulfside Beach Condos.
Police said he was preparing to land after photographing skydiving tandems when his parachute collapsed and he crashed through the roof. (PA)
Security nominee withdraws candidacy
President Barack Obama's second choice for transportation security chief withdrew from considera-tion because of questions over his background as a defence contractor.
Retired Army Major General Robert Harding took himself out of the running as head of the Transportation Security Adminis-tration, another setback for Mr Obama after his first choice withdrew in January.
Maj Gen Harding said the distractions caused by his work as a defence contractor would not be good for the administration or the Homeland Security Depar-tment. The TSA is part of that department. (PA)
Time running out for TV show 24
US TV network Fox announced that its action-packed real-time show starring Kiefer Sutherland as anti-terrorism agent Jack Bauer will close at the end of its current eighth season on May 24.
Sutherland said in a statement that the show's cast and crew "always wanted 24 to finish on a high note, so the decision to make the eighth season our last was one we all agreed upon".
He also said he was looking forward to creating a film version of 24.
The show received 68 Emmy nominations, winning for out-standing drama series and for Sutherland as lead drama actor in 2006. (PA)