In Brief

* NUKE TALKS – Iran will no longer hold talks on its nuclear programme with the EU-3 of Britain, France and Germany but with individual European countries, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.

The negotiations between Iran and the EU-3 had broken off when Tehran announced on January 10 that it was resuming activities linked to uranium enrichment. * VIRUS SPREADS – China has warned of fresh outbreaks of bird flu this spring and has banned imports of pet and wild birds from 10 countries recently hit by the disease, state media said.China has reported more than 30 outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in both poultry and wild birds in a dozen provinces in the past year, along with 11 human cases in recent months, eight of whom have died.* BODY SEARCH – Rescuers dug their way closer to a buried elementary school, the focus of a hunt for some 1 400 people entombed by a massive Philippine landslide, but search leaders said no signs of life had been detected.* IRAQ CARNAGE – At least 23 Iraqis were killed and 60 wounded in a slew of attacks, including a suicide bombing in which 12 commuters burnt to death on a Baghdad minibus, as the US ambassador urged politicians to agree to a government of national unity.* HISTORIAN JAILED – Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison by an Austrian court for denying the Holocaust 17 years ago, despite his claiming to have changed his views.* SECTARIAN UNREST – Ten people died and more than 40 were injured in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi following clashes between Muslims and Christians over the supposed desecration of the Koran, a Red Cross official said.- Nampa-AFP-Reuters* VIRUS SPREADS – China has warned of fresh outbreaks of bird flu this spring and has banned imports of pet and wild birds from 10 countries recently hit by the disease, state media said.China has reported more than 30 outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in both poultry and wild birds in a dozen provinces in the past year, along with 11 human cases in recent months, eight of whom have died.* BODY SEARCH – Rescuers dug their way closer to a buried elementary school, the focus of a hunt for some 1 400 people entombed by a massive Philippine landslide, but search leaders said no signs of life had been detected.* IRAQ CARNAGE – At least 23 Iraqis were killed and 60 wounded in a slew of attacks, including a suicide bombing in which 12 commuters burnt to death on a Baghdad minibus, as the US ambassador urged politicians to agree to a government of national unity.* HISTORIAN JAILED – Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison by an Austrian court for denying the Holocaust 17 years ago, despite his claiming to have changed his views.* SECTARIAN UNREST – Ten people died and more than 40 were injured in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi following clashes between Muslims and Christians over the supposed desecration of the Koran, a Red Cross official said.- Nampa-AFP-Reuters