Yeltsin signs AIDS Bill• President Boris Yeltsin on Monday signed into law a controversial Bill that imposes mandatory AIDS tests for foreigners, prisoners and refugees AP reports from Moscow

AIDS activists have criticised the measure, saying it violates human rights and Russia'S obligations under international agreements.

Ukrainian held in Prague: Czech police arrested a Ukrainian who opened fire in Prague airport - and hijacked a taxi before being caught trj a big manhunt.

police said yesterday. Reuter reports from Prague.

Tlie rtian. named only as Oleg Z. wounded a policeman. In the shooting incident which happened late on Saturday but was not immediately reported. He was detained on Sunday.

Desai’s condition improving :-rhe clinical condition of former Prime Minister. Moraqi Desai was stable and he was responding to verbal communications, doctors attending on him said yesterday. PTI reports from Bombay.

There was a marked improvement in his level Of consciousness since last Friday and he was improving well, they said.

WWII bomb defused in UK : Army bomb disposal Safely disarmed a huge World War II

German bbmb in southwest England on Sunday, allowing 4.000 evacuated people to go back home. Reuter reports from London.

Many of the inhabitants of Portland were evacuated for two days while bomb disposal expert Captain Mike Lobb disarmed the half-ton (500 kg) bomb.

Blasts kill one in Guatemala : a powerful bomb exploded near the presidential palace while UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was attending a dinner. One man was killed and a woman wounded, but no one in the palace was reported injured. AP says from Guatemala City.

The bomb exploded on Sunday night about 300 meters (yards) west of the palace. It was strong enough to break glass at nearby homes and could be heard through much of the city.

A second, less powerful bomb exploded a few minutes later in ihe same area, breaking some windows in nearby homes and offices.

4 more beheaded in Saudi Arabia : Two Pakistanis, a Saudi and an Afghan were beheaded in Riyadh on Sunday, raising to 62 the number of executions carried in the Kingdom this year, compared with 58 for the whole of last year. AFP reports from Riyadh. '

An Interior Ministry statement read out on state television said a Saudi man. Idriss Barnawl was executed for raping a taxi driver. "Die ministry said two Pakistanis and an Afghan were beheaded for smuggling heroin Into the Kingdom They had brought^he drug In after swallowing it.

43 hurt as US jet catches fire : -nw tail engine of an American Airlines jet bound for Santo Domingo caught fire before takeoff at Kennedy Airport, forcing the evacuation of 108 passengers and crew members Forty-three people were injured sliding down emergency chutes. authorities said. AP reports from New York

The cause of the Sunday morning fire on the MD-11 wasn't immediately

known Thirty of the injured were taken to hospitals, said port authority spokesman Tom MiddleuUss The most serious injury was a broken leg

13 die in Thai train mishap : Thirteen people were killed late on Sunday when a 10-wheel truck loaded with gravel collided with a Bangkok Express train 280 kilometers (150 miles) south of the capital AFP reports from Bangkok

Police in Prachuap Khikhon reached by telephone said that more than 100 people were injured in the crash. 2(> of them seriously. Ten passenger cars derailed and four caught ^f>re In the accident