He was hit in the left hand, the right arm and the lower stomach, causing perforations to the intestines.

A man arrested after the shooting identified himself as Mehmet Ali Hagca, a student.

The bullets hit the Pope as he stood in his white jeep waving to the crowd of some 15,000 people in the square.

The pontiff collapsed bleeding into his secretary's arms amid the horrified screams of onlookers.

Italian television said two gunmen were arrested and that the police were looking for a third suspect, but police spokesmen mentioned only Hagca's name.

They said he had been taken to an undisclosed location for security reasons.

The gunman had fired four or five shots. Two women tourists were hit in the shooting. An American was seriously wounded in the chest and underwent surgery. A Jamaican was hit in the left arm.

Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong were to face detention and be banned from working if they refused offers of resettlement.

The tough measures were introduced to tackle the problem of boatpeople who consistently refused to be resettled abroad. The 1,500 refugees in temporary transit centres run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees would also face fines as well as confinement if they failed to comply with camp rules.

In April, the UNHCR recorded the highest number of Vietnamese refugees to arrive in Southeast Asian countries in more than a year.

After two years of fighting Hong Kong's attempts to extradite him from the US to face business fraud charges, international financier Amos Dawe arrived at Kai Tak airport and was whisked off to the custodial ward at Queen Mary Hospital.

Security at the airport was tight. The fugitive had claimed that Soviet assassins would make an attempt on his life to stop him from revealing what he knew about Russian economic infiltration in Southeast Asia and the US. The Soviet-backed Moscow-Narodny Bank, with which the former chairman of defunct Mosbert Holdings and the Mosbert Group of Companies had business dealings, claimed Dawe owed it $20 million.

A 30-year-old man told the High Court he forgave his wife for the death of their nine-month-old baby and felt he was partly responsible.

His 27-year-old wife was sentenced to two years for the manslaughter of the baby and the wounding of her mother-in-law. A jury acquitted her of murder.

The court heard that when the couple separated, the husband took the baby to his mother's. When his wife found the older woman with her son on her back, she used a chopper to attack her.

But the blow went astray and struck the baby on the head.

Mr Commissioner Hooper said it was a tragic case and that the woman would have to live the rest of her life with the knowledge that she had been responsible for the death of her baby son.

Peter Sutcliffe, the self-confessed killer of 13 women in the Yorkshire Ripper case, testified he was 'selected by God' to kill prostitutes because they were responsible for his marital problems.

Taking the stand, he said that in 1967 he heard 'what I believed then and believe now to have been God's voice' while working as a gravedigger near the west Yorkshire town of Bradford.

He admitted killing the women over a five-year period but pleaded guilty only to manslaughter, claiming 'diminished responsibility'.

Eight of his victims were prostitutes.