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Police in Austria may have missed a chance to capture one of the world's most wanted men last year.

Officers apparently questioned war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic during a raid on a flat in Vienna while looking for a Serb man suspected of murder.

When the officers saw images of Karadzic after his capture this week they recognised him as the man from the flat and contacted the Interior Ministry, an Austrian newspaper said.

According to local reports, the fugitive had been living in the apartment for around three months.

Police are believed to have encountered Karadzic when they raided the apartment of the girlfriend of a Serb man suspected of having shot dead another Serb in a Vienna cafe in May 2007.

When the police asked him to identify himself, he is reported to have shown a Croat passport under the name 'Petar Glumac', and explained calmly that he was in Vienna for training.

The Austrian Interior Ministry confirmed the raid, which took place on May 4, 2007, and said policemen who took part in it recognised Karadzic as the man they saw in the apartment when they saw his pictures after his capture.

Karadzic, who vanished in 1996, was captured in Belgrade earlier this week disguised as a doctor.

Serb authorities said the 63-year-old, who had been indicted for genocide during the Bosnia wars, was barely recognisable in his white long beard.


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Three adults and a two-year-old boy have died in a crash in Scotland.


The two-vehicle collision occurred yesterday around 3.15pm on the main Perth to Inverness road in the Highlands.

A Dutch-registered Volvo estate and a pick-up truck are said to have burst into flames after the crash on the A9 at The Slochd, north of Aviemore.

The crash also left a woman and a girl injured.

They were in the Volvo, along with a man who died and the boy.

The two adults in the truck were killed, as were three of their four dogs.

The woman and girl were taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.

Parts of the A9 have a reputation as being among the most dangerous stretches of trunk road in the UK.


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A man has been shot dead in east London.

Scotland Yard said officers were called to reports of shots being fired in Cable Street, Limehouse, early on Sunday morning.

Police and London Ambulance Service found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The man, who was in his 20s, has not yet been identified.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said the shooting will be investigated by officers from Operation Trident, which investigates gun crime among young black people.


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Four swimmers have drowned and three are missing after two days of treacherous currents around New York City and neighbouring Long Island in the United States.

The missing include a 10-year-old girl who had been playing in the waters off Coney Island, a popular beach resort in the Big Apple.

In Long Beach, a tourist destination in Long Island, a swimmer died after he was spotted struggling over 100 metres from the shore.

Another man drowned at the same beach the day before while playing ball games in shallow water. A teenager who was playing with him is still missing.

Also on Long Island, 42-year-old man died after swimming at a beach in East Quogue. A fourth swimmer drowned at Sandy Bar Beach on Long Island's East End.

Another missing person is a 23-year-old man who was swept away off Jacob Riis Beach in Queens, a borough of New York City.

The Coast Guard has called off his search after spending 23 hours scouring the surrounding area. A friend who tried to save had to be rescued by firefighters.

Authorities have said the spate of swimmers being swept away is unprecedented.

Lond Island Police spokesman Bruce Meyer said he "cannot recall there ever being back-to-back situations like this."

A US National Weather Service meteorologist, Jim Connolly, has said the rough seas were due to a strong storm system that brought eight-foot waves to the area.


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Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has waded into the row over Gordon Brown's future - calling on colleagues to end the plot to unseat him.

He urged Cabinet ministers to end speculation over a leadership challenge, saying there was no-one in the party to match the PM's political experience.

MPs are said to be collecting names to back Justice Secretary Jack Straw as the next leader after new polls suggested Mr Brown faces certain defeat at the next election.

Mr Prescott told Sky News: "It's my judgment that not one of them, at this point in time, has the ability or the experience to deal with the international problems that Gordon Brown can.

"So can I suggest that we all let Gordon have a good holiday with Sarah and the boys. Enjoy it. He'll come back, renewed, refreshed and ready for us to lead that fight.

"And I must say to some of those who are talking to the media - could they take a holiday, stop talking to them in this silly season.

"If you really want to campaign, go out and campaign for a Labour fourth term - not a fourth leader."

Sky News political correspondent Peter Spencer said he did not think Mr Prescott's intervention would be enough to stifle the conjecture, but might embarrass some involved in the secret briefings.

He added: "I don't think it'll be enough to put the speculation off. Frankly I don't think a Holocaust will be enough to put the speculation off. But certainly it will have some of those people in the Cabinet squirming."

Former Cabinet minister David Blunkett has also warned backbench colleagues demanding a challenge to "grow up".

"The issues that affect people are not ones which divide the party or Gordon Brown from any potential successor," he said.


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