10 METRO Friday, September 18, 2009 D ON THE DAY REGISTRATION AVAILABLE. Part race, part obstacle course, part scavenger hunt, City Chase is a unique adventure that will help you discover Dublin as youve never seen it before! For more information and to register your team, go to www.citychasedublin.com Bigger, bolder and braver than last year, are you up for the challenge? WINNERS WILL REPRESENT IRELAND IN THE WORLD fINAL IN SALTA, ARGENTINA IN DECEmBER DUBLIN BOOk YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLDS LARGEST URBAN ADVENTURE SERIES! CITY CHASE DUBLIN IS TAkING PLACE ON SATURDAY SEPTEmBER 19TH. CHASERS WILL mEET IN mERRION SqUARE PARk fROm 9Am AND THE RACE BEGINS AT 10Am SHARP!! PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Europe no longer in the line of fireBy anne gearanBARACK OBAMA is abandoning plans for a US missile defence shield in eastern Europe. The US president announced yes- terday he was scrapping a scheme to base missiles in Poland and build a radar system in the Czech Republic. The shield was to guard against a long-range attack on the US from Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East but the Pentagon said intelligence suggested Tehran was developing short and medium-range missiles. The best way to responsibly ad- vance our security and the security of our allies is to deploy a missile defence system that best responds to the threats that we face and that uti- lises technology that is both proven and cost effective, Mr Obama said. Moscow said it would welcome the plan, which had complicated US efforts to enlist Russian support over Afghanistan and nuclear arms con- trol. The decision is a well-thought and systematic one, said Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Russian Duma foreign affairs committee. Czech critics feared militants would target their country if it host- ed the spy base near Prague. METROWorld Germany: A student wounded nine other students with an axe in an attack on his secondary school yesterday. The 19-year-old attacker was also injured at Carolinum High School in the Bavarian town of Ansbach and was arrested carrying flammable devices, police said. All the wounded were in the eighth grade and one of them, a girl, was seriously injured. There are no indications that any other attackers are in the building, a spokesman said. Police could not confirm reports the attacker lobbed Molotov cocktails into a classroom or that shots had been fired. In March, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer killed 15 people and himself in a school shooting spree. China: A 60-year-old holidaymaker is suing her travel agents for breaking several bones after she was pushed 20ft (6m) down a cliff face at a mountain beauty spot by a monkey who wanted the special monkey food her guide had recommended she buy. A Chengdu Wildlife Park spokesman said: Her mistake was to show fear. If you show fear a monkey will bully you. israel: Defence Minister Ehud Barak said yesterday he did not view Iran as a threat, a view that would seem to depart from other statements of the recent past. The Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper quoted Mr Barak (pictured), the head of Israels centre-left Labour party, as saying Iran does not constitute an existential threat against Israel. Israeli leaders have repeatedly said they view Irans nuclear development as a threat, pointing at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads calls for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map. ameriCa: A Yale University lab technician was yesterday charged with the murder of a student whose body was found inside a wall on the campus in New Haven, Connecticut the day she was to be married. Raymond Clark, 24, is charged in connection with the killing of Annie Le, a pharmacology student. Her body was found on Sunday in the basement of the laboratory building where she worked with Clark. Police used DNA testing in the investigation. The case has shocked students at the Ivy League university, whose campus is secured by dozens of surveillance cameras and requires ID swipe cards to access buildings. Ms Les body showed marks of strangulation. neTherlanDs: Police are hunting one of the countrys most notorious human traffickers after he fled while on temporary release from prison to visit his wife and baby. A courts decision to allow Saban Baran out of his cell for a family visit has caused outrage. He had been serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence as the leader of a gang notorious for forcing more than 100 women into prostitution, tattooing some of them to mark them as the gangs property. Prosecutors also say some women, who came from Germany and eastern Europe, were forced to have breast implants and illegal abortions. Interpol has been informed as it is believed Baran may be trying to reach Turkey. Thai Buddhist monk Luang Phu Supha on what he says is his 115th birthday, at a temple on Phuket island, Thailand, yesterday. His age at 115 would make him older than the american Walter Bruening who is claiming the guinness World title of worlds oldest living man at 113. Luang Phu Suphas birth was registered when he was two years old. His birth certificate reads 17 September 1896, which, if verified, would make him the oldest man by four days Picture: EPA is hE thE oldEst of thEm all? index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html