WASHINGTON - A teenager was arrested on suspicion of trying to detonate a car bomb at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in the northwestern US state of Oregon, news reports said Saturday.

AGARTALA - Separatist tribal guerrillas in Tripura have abducted four labourers working on a school building construction site, police said Saturday.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik Saturday said a delay in investigations into the 26/11 Mumbai attack has been caused because of a lukewarm response from India.

LONDON - Gun-totting British policemen have been deployed in many shopping centres in Britain to combat the threat of a Mumbai-like massacre ahead of the Christmas holidays, a media report said Saturday.

JAMMU - The much-hyped rehabilitation policy for Kashmiri militants may turn out to be a big disappointment for Jammu and Kashmir. Not a single application has been received till now, officials said, adding that cumbersome paperwork and time-consuming procedures may kill it altogether.