Craig Thomson: Police makes further inquiry over latest charges

Police have verified they are making investigation into new charges against Hearts footballer Craig Thomson.

He was set on the sex criminal register prior this month after he acknowledged vulgar and libidinous deeds against young girls over the internet.

The club primarily stood by him, but he was suspended two days ago. Officers are evaluating into information they have got advising there may be witnessed of another sufferer.

A Lothian and Borders Police spokesman said: "We are carrying on investigation into the options that another person has grounds for complaint."

The 20-year-old was offender on 17 June at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for rude behavior towards two girls aged 12 and 14 on the internet.

On Friday the Scottish Premier League club said Thomson's "severe mistake of judgment" was due to "naivety and likely defective outside influence".

The full-back restarted training at the club instantly. He expressed regrets through the club website, stating he was "completely conscious that I have let everyone down".

Hearts issued two announcements on the issue on their website. The first read: "The club outlooks this matter very gravely and does not overlook the behavior of the player. Suitable action to avoid any further progress of illegal tricks has been taken.

"On adopting this choice, the club acknowledged that there are substantial justifying conditions that give major pledges that the player's conduct, no matter how offensive, was the consequence of a severe mistake of judgment due to naivety and possible wrong outside influence before anything more evil and it will not be continued."

Then, early on Friday evening, the club issued another announcement which quotes to "outside influences on players and the club".

The club's earlier supporting of Thomson was broadly condemned.

The authorize supporters' club of the Scottish Premier League outfit, charity Children's 1st and Scottish representatives were amid those calling for Hearts to take legal action against the player.

And Hearts' water sponsor postponed its agreement with the club on Monday.

The club then terminated him on Tuesday.

A Hearts spokesman said they were attentive of the newest blames but were giving no remarks.

French media-reporters held detainee by Taliban return home safely

Two French news reporters detained hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for 18 months are reached in France, flying into an airport near Paris.

Cameraman Stephane Taponier and reporter Herve Ghesquiere were released in conditions that remain not clear.

Both were abducted with Afghan fellows near Kabul in December 2009 while on task for French TV. Mr. Ghesquiere said they were both in fine health. "We were never endangered with death, never torture," he said.

The two French national, who were running for French state television network France-3, had become some of the longest-detention Western prisoners in Afghanistan.

"There are numbers of jails in the world, I think for those who are detain hostage, and those who passed away in actions when they attempted to save them," the 47 year-old journalist added.

"Up till now you have been a prisoner, you can't think but I certainly feel for them because it is over for us but still going for them."

Both the journalists, who had been set in with French troops in Afghanistan, firmed combine material from an area recognized locally as "the Black Hole".

In April 2010, after unveiling a video of the prisons on the internet, the Taliban said they had presented a list of detainees to French officials that they desired released in exchange for the two journalists.

Mr. Taponier, 46, and Mr Ghesquiere and one of the three Afghan companions with whom they were captured, interpreter Reza Din, were freed on Wednesday. French authorities have said that no money was paid for the men.

The other two Afghan interpreters had been freed some time ago, French authorities said.

After stepping on to the tarmac, the two holds waiting family members and shook hands with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife.

Mr. Ghesquiere, who was capture in lonely imprisonment for the previous eight months, said he did not regret over his choice to work in Afghanistan.

"It's what I forever desired to do. I don't want to return to Afghanistan tomorrow but I want to do this job now in excess of ever."