OSLO - Anders Behring Breivik's defence lawyers said the confessed mass killer will not appeal if he is sentenced to prison but he will challenge any ruling that declares him insane. Breivik's mental state will be the focus when the Oslo district court presents its judgment against Breivik today for the bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people in July last year. Breivik has confessed to the killings but he has pleaded not guilty to "acts of terror", arguing that his actions were "cruel but necessary" to protect Norway from multi-culturalism. AP
MOSCOW - Russia has formally asked Washington to extradite arms smuggler Viktor Bout after a United States court jailed him for 25 years for conspiring to supply weapons to anti-American guerrillas in Colombia. Moscow's justice ministry said it sent the petition for Bout to serve his time in Russia after getting written permission from his wife Alla, a condition it said was imposed by justice officials in the United States. AFP
TRIPOLI - Late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam will go on trial next month in the town of Zintan, where he has been held since November, the prosecution's spokesman said yesterday. The International Criminal Court in The Hague had issued a warrant for Saif Gaddafi 's arrest on charges of crimes against humanity during the conflict that overthrew his father last year, but the new Libyan authorities have insisted that he stand trial in his home country. AFP