"Unabomber" fit to stand trial

A court in California has ruled that a man accused of being the killer known as the Unabomber is mentally competent to stand trial.

The defence and the prosecution agreed to accept a psychiatrist's report which concluded that the accused man, Theodore Kaczynski, met the legal requirements.

Mr Kaczynski, a former university professor, has pleaded not guilty to charges relating to a sixteen-year-long campaign of bomb attacks on industrial and academic targets, in which three people were killed and many injured.

The court has still to decide whether he is competent to serve as his own lawyer, as he has asked to do.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service