Airport officials in Cairo say the police have detained an American-Egyptian man who arrived on a flight from New York with several weapons in his luggage.
The officials say the man was taken into custody as he tried to pass through customs with a metal box containing two 9 mm handguns, 250 bullets, several swords, daggers and knives.
They say customs officials had been alerted after the weapons were discovered when the box was examined upon arrival on Wednesday on an Egypt Air flight from New York’s JFK International Airport in Cairo.
A police official confirmed the man was under investigation by prosecutors.
The officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to reporters.
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Swedish cartoonist assaulted at lecture
Stockholm, : A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by his Prophet Mohammed cartoon was assaulted as furious protesters interrupted his university lecture about the limits of free speech.
Mr Lars Vilks said that a man leaped from the front row and head-butted him on Tuesday as he was delivering his lecture at Uppsala University, breaking Mr Vilks’ glasses but leaving him uninjured. The police later said the attacker was stopped before he could reach Mr Vilks and that the artist may have bumped into plain-clothes officers who briskly evacuated him from the room.
Three people were detained, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether the attacker was among them. —AP
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Giraffe kick kills woman in S. Africa
Johannesburg : South Africa’s press agency says a giraffe has kicked a woman to death at a game farm in northeastern South Africa.
The South African Press Agency said on Monday that the woman took a walk with her two dogs on the game farm in Limpopo province on Saturday morning.
The agency, citing South Africa’s Beeld newspaper, says one of the dogs ran towards a herd of giraffe, scaring them. The newspaper says the 25-year-old woman tried to protect the dog, prompting a giraffe to kick her in the neck, killing her.
Giraffes are found in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, which covers part of Limpopo province. —AP