World news: Nintendo issues eyesight warning over 3D console

Nintendo said 3D games on its highly anticipated new handheld console could harm the eyesight of children aged six or younger.

Nintendo said some specialists believe that "there is a possibility that 3D images which send different images to the left and right eye could affect the development of vision in small children".

The undated statement appeared on a section of the company's Japanese website devoted to its upcoming 3DS handheld.

Nintendo joins peers like Sony and Toshiba in warning consumers about ill-effects from watching video or playing games in three dimensions.

Sony recommends that a doctor should be consulted before kids are allowed to use the 3D functionality on its PlayStation game console, while Toshiba says children should be closely monitored while watching its new 3D TVs that do not require glasses.

All the companies say that the technology can also cause adult viewers to tire and feel sick.

Nintendo's new 3DS, the latest in its wildly successful DS line of handheld consoles, will go on sale in February in Japan, then March in Europe and the United States.

Bomb blast wrecks club

Police in Greece said a powerful bomb has exploded outside a closed nightclub in Athens, causing no injuries, in an attack linked with criminal extortion groups.

The 4am explosion was heard across southern Athens and severely damaged the club's facade.

Yesterday, suspected radical anarchists exploded a strong bomb outside an Athens administrative court, causing severe damage but no injuries after the area was evacuated.

Uranium returned to Russia

In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine return to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs.

The operation follows a pledge by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to get rid of all of his country's highly enriched uranium by April 2012.

Gunmen kill police officers

Gunmen believed to be linked to drug cartels killed four police officers and a doctor in apparently co-ordinated attacks in and around the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.

Three officers were wounded in the attacks, a spokesman for the local security council added.

Fuel price protests intensify

Protests against a hike in fuel prices intensified and turned violent in Bolivia as thousands of demonstrators demanded President Evo Morales' government repeal the hike.

Demonstrators filled the streets in La Paz and other cities to stage protests.Police guilty of torturing ETA suspects

Spain: A court has convicted four Civil Guard police officers of torturing members of the armed Basque group ETA who were arrested for bombing Madrid's airport in 2006.

The officers were found guilty of beating and threatening Mattin Sarasola and Igor Portu in custody.

Jamaica: A woman killed a newborn baby girl by throwing her out of a second-storey window at the island's largest maternity hospital. The woman is still at large.