World News: Palestinians brand peace talks leaks 'a pack of lies'

The documents, obtained by Al-Jazeera, suggest the Palestinians agreed to Israel keeping large parts of illegally occupied East Jerusalem - an offer Israel apparently rejected.

But chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said the leaks were "a pack of lies".

Al-Jazeera says it has thousands of confidential records of meetings, e-mails, communications between Palestinian, Israeli and US leaders, covering the years 2000-2010.

The papers are believed to have leaked from the Palestinian side.

Al-Jazeera said the Palestinians offered to let Israel keep all but one of the Jewish enclaves it built in east Jerusalem after capturing it in the 1967 Mideast war. About 200,000 Israelis live there now.

In return, the Palestinians wanted Israeli land, including a section close to the West Bank-Israel line.

The chief Palestinian negotiator in the 2008 talks, Ahmed Qureia, told reporters that "many parts of the documents were fabricated".

President returned in landslide

Portugal elected its conservative president to a second term in a landslide victory.

Anibal Cavaco Silva, supported by the main opposition Social Democratic Party, collected 53 per cent of the vote compared with 20 per cent for Socialist Party candidate Manuel Alegre.

'Deported to danger' fury

The head of the United Nations refugee agency has criticised countries for sending Iraqis back into danger.

Antonio Guterres' criticism came on a day when insurgents rattled the Baghdad area with a series of bombings that killed a total of ten people.

Police station gun rampage

A GUNMAN opened fire inside a police station, wounding four officers including a commander before he was shot dead.

The gunman walked in through the Detroit, Michigan, precinct's revolving door shortly after 4pm local time yesterday and opened fire randomly at officers, police said. The officers fired back, killing the gunman.

"Utter chaos and pandemonium took place," Police Chief Ralph Godbee told a news conference.

Arrest sparks street protests

Yemeni police arrested a woman activist for leading anti-government protests, setting off a second day of street demos. Police used tear gas and batons to disperse hundreds of students, activists and politicians who demonstrated in the capital Sanaa to demand the release of Tawakul Abdel-Salam Karman.

Demo calls on rivals to form government

Belgium: Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Brussles in support of national unity, demanding that rival political groupings form a coalition after seven months without a government.

Organisers said the rally was also meant to promote solidarity among the country's Flemish and Walloon communities.

Pakistan: A bus collided with an oil tanker in the country's south, setting off an inferno that killed 32 people.