10 METRO Friday, December 18, 2009 D METROWorld Tulay Goren: The body of the 15-year-old was never found GERMANY: Billy the kid has been put behind bars on a diet of bread and water at a jail after holding up traffic. The young goat was caught by police in Bremen after he blocked traffic by standing in the middle of a road crossing. Several patrol cars were called in to help as the goat led police on a chase across town. Remarks on the arrest papers said he smells very bad. YEMEN: Security forces backed by warplanes yesterday killed 34 al- Qaeda militants, foiling a planned series of suicide bombings. According to a government statement, a number of al-Qaeda targets, including a training centre in the southern province of Abyan were hit, resulting in the death of 34 militants, with 17 more arrested in Abyan and in Arhab, north of the capital Sanaa. As well as fighting al-Qaeda, Yemen is battling a Shia rebellion in the north and separatist unrest in the south. Saudi Arabia, the worlds largest oil exporter, fears the growing instability could become a major security threat for the kingdom by allowing al-Qaeda to gain a stronger foothold in the region. COLOMBIA: The countrys two biggest rebel groups have said they may join forces against the state after years of being pushed on to the defensive by the US-backed security policies of President Alvaro Uribe. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) issued a surprise joint statement in which they threatened to unite with force and belligerence in their fight against Mr Uribe. The two groups, labelled terrorists by Washington, have deep ideological differences but now appear willing to consider uniting for the sake of survival. We are on our way toward working for unity, said a joint statement. MExICO: Two hundred members of the navy raided an apartment complex and killed a reputed Mexican drug cartel chief in a two-hour gun battle on Wednesday. It is being hailed as one of the biggest victories in President Felipe Calderons war on drugs. Arturo Beltran Leyva, the boss of bosses, and three members of his cartel were slain in the shoot-out in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City. Beltran Levya (pictured) is the highest- ranking figure taken down under Mr Calderon, who has deployed more than 45,000 troops as well as the Mexican navy to crush the cartels since taking office in December 2006. NEW ZEALAND: An unholy row has broken out over a church billboard aimed at challenging stereotypes about the birth of Jesus Christ. A dejected- looking Joseph lies in bed next to Mary under the caption: Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow. St Matthew-in- the-City Church in Auckland, which erected the billboard, said it had intended to provoke debate and challenge the literal interpretation of the Christmas conception story. But the Catholic Church, among others, has condemned it as inappropriate and disrespectful. A spokeswoman for the Catholic Diocese of Auckland said the poster was offensive to the Christian tradition of a virgin birth. Father guilty of honour killing of missing girlBy COn dOherTyA FATHER has been convicted of the honour killing murder of his 15- year-old daughter more than a decade after she disappeared. Mehmet Goren, from north-east London, was a psychotic bully who had once tried to gas his whole family to death and inject his wife, Hanim, with rat poison, the court heard. Hanim spoke up against her husband after 30 years of torment, helping to convict him of Tulay Gorens murder. Mehmet killed her because of her ro- mance with a man called Halil Unal who belonged to a different branch of the Islamic faith. The affair made her a worthless commodity because he could not marry her off for 5,000. The fish and chip shop worker told his eight-year-old son Tuncay to kiss Tulay goodbye on January 7, 1999, as he would never see his sister again. The body of the schoolgirl who told a friend she may have been preg- nant has never been found. In the weeks before the murder, Me- hmet beat up Mr Unal and complained about the relationship to police. Tulay ran away and told police of the beating, before her mother persuaded her to return home. Mehmet attacked his daughters boy- friend with a hatchet outside a pub 13 days after the murder, and while in hospital Mr Unal reported her miss- ing. After a review in 2008, Mehmet was arrested again, along with his two brothers, who were both cleared of the charge. Police and the prosecutors said there was now a much better under- standing of honour killings. NIGERIA: A federal judge has dismissed a 170-count indictment accusing a former high-ranking official in the oil-rich Niger Delta of corruption. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said the indictment against James Ibori, Delta states governor from 1999 to 2007, had been thrown out. The commission, which arrested Mr Ibori (pictured) in 2007, accusing him of abuse of office, money laundering and stealing public funds, said it would appeal the decision. Mr Iboris prosecution represented a first step toward a corruption-fighting pledge by President Umaru YarAdua. SWEDEN: An appeal court has ordered the retrial of a man convicted of a 1988 murder of an Israeli tourist. It said new evidence raises doubts about whether Sture Bergwall, a notorious serial killer convicted of seven other murders, is guilty of murdering Yenon Levi. Bergwall (pictured) filed a petition with the court in April, saying he was under the influence of drugs when he confessed. Bergwall, who changed his name from Thomas Quick, has been convicted of five murders between 1976 and 1988. He was also found guilty of three murders in Norway. 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