10 METRO Monday, December 7, 2009 D Japan: Hotels near Tokyo train stations are hoping to attract trainspotters by marketing rooms with a rail view. The country has 20,000 railway buffs, who spend more than 27million a year on their hobby. The hotels offer packages including a guaranteed view of rail lines and gifts such as copies of timetables and paperweights made of pieces of track. new Zealand: A HIV- positive man who infected his wife so she would have sex with him again faces up to 14 years in jail. The man admitted to twice pricking his wife with a syringe filled with tainted blood and will be sentenced at Auckland High Court early next year. It is alleged the man discovered he was HIV-positive in 2004, but his wife and children were not infected. The wife stayed with her husband for their children but refused to have sex with him for fear of contracting Aids. But in May last year she found a sting-like mark on her thigh and two days later awoke to a stinging feeling in her leg. Four months later she was told she was HIV-positive. METRO World america: Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted the US has not had any good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden in years. Mr Gates said he could not confirm reports that the al-Qaeda leader (pictured) was seen in Afghanistan earlier this year. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report last month blaming former president George Bushs administration for allowing bin Laden to escape from the Tora Bora caves of Afghanistan in late 2001. iran: Internet access has been limited by officials ahead of expected anti-government demonstrations due to take place today, a date that has served as a day for pro-reform protests since the 1990s. Journalists working for foreign media groups were told not to leave their offices to cover the rallies. Thousands were arrested earlier this year after Mahmoud Ahmadinejads disputed election win over opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi (pictured) led to the largest protests since the 1979 revolution. philippines: Authorities have arrested 62 people and found a major cache of illegal weapons after martial law was imposed in the southern province of Maguindanao. Thousands of troops, backed by tanks and warplanes, have taken control of the province in a crackdown on the powerful Ampatuan clan, which is accused of killing 57 people travelling in the convoy of a political rival. The government says the Ampatuans, who have ruled unopposed in Maguindanao for years, were fomenting rebellion in response to the clampdown on them since the massacre. Rioters vent rage over death of teenBY elena Becatoros MASKED youths hurled firebombs and chunks of marble at police during a march held in Athens yesterday to mark the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of a teenager by police. Police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse the youths in running street battles in the centre of the capital as several thousand demonstrators com- memorated the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. The teenagers death sent youths rampaging through cities in Greece for two weeks last December. Yesterday the rioters smashed bank windows, overturned rubbish bins and set them alight as they hurled rocks and firecrackers at riot police. Authorities said 134 people were de- tained for public order offences in Athens and another 80 in the city of Thessaloniki, where a similar demon- stration descended into violence. At least five protesters were injured in the clashes. Police said 16 officers were hurt. More than 6,000 police had been deployed across Athens in an effort to prevent violence. The new Socialist government, which came to power in October, has been confronted with a surge in armed attacks by far-left and anarchist groups after last years shooting and had vowed a zero-tolerance approach to violence at yesterdays commemo- rations. chaos: a policemans clothing on fire in athens yesterday Picture: AP index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html