Lastnight World

Japan kingmaker vows to stay on

Tokyo: Ichiro Ozawa,the kingmaker of Japans ruling coalition,said on Saturday he had no plans to quit over his alleged involvement in a growing political funding scandal and vowed to clear his name. Prosecutors arrested a ruling party lawmaker and two others all close to Ozawa over alleged financial irregularities within his political funding group,which has already been raided by investigators.

Qaeda men in UK a concern: Report

London: Al-Qaeda has restructured its global network and now has the capability to mount a wide range of terror attacks against Western targets,according to a detailed US intelligence assessment. US officials believe Britain poses a major threat to western security because of large number of al-Qaeda operatives active in that country,The Telegraph reported. American officials now regularly refer to Londonistan because of the high concentration of Islamic radicals in the metropolitan, The Telegraph said quoting US officials.