British terror suspect allowed to call his wife in India
A doctor detained in Australia in connection with the failed terrorist plot in Britain was allowed talk to his wife in India on Wednesday for the first time since his arrest more than a week ago, his lawyer said. Also Wednesday, a magistrate gave police permission to hold the doctor, Muhammad Haneef, without charge for another two days and adjourned a hearing in which his lawyers are demanding he be freed or charged. Haneef, a 27-year-old Indian who came to Australia from Britain last year, was arrested July 2 as he tried to leave the eastern Australian city of Brisbane for India on a one-way ticket. Police say they are investigating links between Haneef and some of the seven suspects held in connection with two bomb-laden cars found in London on June 29 and an attack on a Glasgow airport the next day.