Around the world: Soldiers storm campus to break up student protests

The Yemeni government stepped up its efforts to stop mass protests calling for the president's resignation, with soldiers firing rubber bullets and tear gas at students camped at a university in the capital in a raid that left at least 98 people wounded, officials said.

The army stormed the Sanaa University campus hours after thousands of inmates rioted at the central prison in the capital, taking a dozen guards hostage and calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

At least one prisoner was killed as the guards fought to regain control, police said.

Yemen has been rocked by weeks of protests against Saleh, inspired by recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia that drove out those nations' leaders. Saleh, a key US ally in the campaign against al-Qaida, has been in power 32 years.

Students at Sanaa University have been sleeping on campus since mid-February.

Medical officials said many of the 98 people hurt at the university were in serious condition. .

"It's a massacre," said opposition spokesman Muhammad Qahtan. "It is a crime by security troops against students engaged in a peaceful sit-in."

Trump denies ratings stunt

Billionaire developer Donald Trump has denied he is using talk about a run for the US president to generate publicity for his TV show The Celebrity Apprentice.

Trump, a Republican, told NY1 News that he plans to decide by June on whether to join the 2012 race.

Stolen gems found in drain

French investigators have found jewels valued at 15 million hidden in a Paris rain sewer - part of the spectacular 2008 heist from jeweller Harry Winston's Paris boutique.

Nineteen rings and three sets of earrings were dug up from a drain at a house in the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, police said.

The jewels were hidden in a cement mould inside the sewer, police said. The house belonged to one of the nine people charged in the heist.

Funeral bomb kills twenty

At least 20 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in Pakistan's north west.

Police spokesman Zahid Khan said the explosion near the city of Peshawar also wounded more than 50 people.

Police said the funeral was for the wife of an anti-Taliban militiamen in Matani.

Flooding hits cyclone towns

Heavy rain is sending floodwaters pouring into homes and businesses in towns still cleaning up from a massive cyclone that tore through Queensland, Australian, last month.

Monsoonal rain over a coastal area south of Cairns prompted flash flood warnings.Tsunami alert after major earthquake

A MAJOR earthquake struck off Japan's north-eastern coast today, shaking buildings hundreds of miles away in Tokyo and triggering a small tsunami.

There were no immediate reports of significant damage or injuries.

The magnitude 7.3 quake struck at 11.45am local time and was centred about 90 miles off the north-eastern coast, about 270 miles north-east of Tokyo, at a depth of about five miles, Japan's meteorological agency said.