News in Brief

‘Interpol alerted’: Cyprus police said on Sunday they had alerted Interpol over a possible sighting of missing British girl Madeleine McCann in the holiday resort of Ayia Napa.

Police spokesman Andreas Angelides told AFP that a Briton informed police he had “seen a girl who looked like Madeleine with a British couple as one of their three children”.

He said this information was given to police on February 20 and they passed it on to the European authorities.

“We asked Interpol to also look into the matter,” Angelides said, but added that the family in question had most probably left Cyprus.

Earlier in February police had received a complaint against the same family alleging they had left their rented flat stealing various items from it.

Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished from her Portuguese holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in 2007. (AFP) Men plead guilty: Four men have pleaded guilty to discussing plans to carry out a terrorist attack in Britain using homemade guns and bombs.

Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain were arrested at their homes in the town of Luton, north of London, in April.

Prosecutors said the men, aged between 21 and 31, downloaded files containing instructions for an attack, bought survival equipment and collected money for terrorist purposes. They also admitted “facilitating, planning and encouraging” overseas travel for terrorist purposes.

They pleaded guilty Friday at Woolwich Crown Court in London to preparing for terrorist acts, and will be sentenced April 15. (AP)