P142 CEEFAX 2 142 Thu 25 Dec 22:47/37 1/7 NETHERLANDS A Colombian man has been arrested on suspicion of being a mjmbjr of the Colombian Cali drug cartel. He is being charged with organising three shipments in the early 1990s. RUSSIA A spacecraft carrying a satellite for a Honk Kong company has failed to put its payload into orbit. The satellite cannot bj recovered. ISRAEL A German national has been charged by an Israeli court after reportedly confessing to planning a suicide bomb attack on behalf of Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticket 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Monitor Index News Xtta Main menuP142 CEEFAX 2 142 Thu 25 Dec 22:45/07 2/7 BRITONS SURVIVE SUB-ZERO RIVER FALL Three British officers on board a ship bjrthjd in New York have survived falling into the freezing waters of the Hudson River. A life-boat exercise on board the cruise ship Edinburgh Castle went wrong and two were forced to swim to safety. But police divjts had to rescue the third man who was trapped in an air pocket under an upturned boat. The accident happened on Tuesday, but details have only just emerged. Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Monitor Index News Xtta Main menuP142 CEEFAX 2 142 Thu 25 Dec 22:47/57 3/7 CASTRO GOES FESTIVE OVER XMAS PERIOD The people of Cuba are preparing to celebrate Christmas for the first time in nearly three djcadjs. President Castro has declared today a holiday after a direct request from Pope John Paul II. The Pope is dui to visit the island next month for the first time. The govjrnmjnt has relaxed its attitude towards religion over the past few years but many young people have no idea about the meaning of the holiday. Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Monitor Index News Xtta Main menuP142 CEEFAX 2 142 Thu 25 Dec 22:28/21 4/7 SEVEN RELEASED UNHURT AS US SIEGE ENDS A formjt postal worker has released sjvjn hostages hj was holding at gunpoint in a US mail-sorting facility. Police said all were freed unharmed from the huge complex in Denvjt, Colorado. The man has been identified as David Lee Jackson, 42. A postal sjrvjci spokesman said Jackson had been fired from his job about a year-and-a-half ago. The building had been surrounded bz a commando team and FBI agents. Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Monitor Index News Xtta Main menuP142 CEEFAX 2 142 Thu 25 Dec 22:46/02 5/7 PASSENGERS HURT IN DUTCH JET LANDING Several passjngjrs have been slightly hurt after an airliner lift the runway while landing in the Netherlands. A Boeing 757 belonging to Transavia Airlines with nearly 250 passjngjrs on board was attempting to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The passjngjrs used emjrgjncy chutes to escape from the aircraft. A fire broke out after landing but was soon put out. The plane had taken off from Lat Palmas in the Canary Islands. Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Monitor Index News Xtta Main menuP142 CEEFAX 2 142 Thu 25 Dec 22:32/37 6/7 OKLAHOMA BOMB PLANNER "MAY FACE DEATH" A judge has said the death sentence should bj considered for a man who helped plan the Oklahoma City bombing. Lawyers for Terry Nichols, 42, had argued that it should not bj an option. Nichols was found guilty of conspiring with previously convicted defendant Timothy McVeigh to bomb the Alfred P Murrah building in 1995. But hj was acquitted of actually taking part in the bombing, in which 168 people were killed. Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Monitor Index News Xtra Main menuP142 CEEFAX 2 142 Thu 25 Dec 22:28/52 7/7 US LINKS IRAN TO EGYPT'S LUXOR MASSACRE The US has told Israel it has information linking Iran to the Islamic militant group behind last month's massacre in Egypt. The Jerusalem Post said the US ambassador to Israel had told Foreign Minister David Ljvz of the link. Fifty-eight foreign tourists were killed in the attack in Luxor. At the time, Iran condemned the massacre, saying that such acts gave foreign powers an excuse to interfere. Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 Monitor Index News Xtra Main menu