DILI: A new and unexpected multinational force has arrived in East Timor -- a bouncing baby boy. The boy was born in an emergency caesarean operation at an Australian field hospital which is part of the multinational force charged with restoring security to East Timor. The grateful East Timorese parents named their healthy baby Multinational.

Bugs Bunny UFOs

NIEDERKALBACH:

A flurry of UFO sightings over the quiet hamlet of Niederkalbach in scenic central Germany came to an anti-climactic end today when police said the mysterious object had finally landed. Anxious villagers were informed that the silver-grey oblong-shaped craft with two slender quivering appendages was in fact a helium-filled Bugs Bunny balloon uncannily similar to those available at a local fair. It drifted over the area for days before slowly deflating and coming to rest in a resident's garden.

Firework menace

MOSCOW: Jittery residents of St Petersberg were today further unnerved by amysterious apartment house explosion which turned out to be only a fireworks blast. Firefighters, summoned after residents heard an explosion, found scorch marks on the seventh floor doors of a lift in the apartment block but no evidence of anything more than a large firecracker. More than 300 persons have been killed in explosions in apartment blocks in Russian cities this month, including two persons in St Petersburg.