New evidence prompts trial delay for Libyan charged in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

Jury selection was due to get under way in Washington DC on Wednesday but the BBC understands a new start date has been set for January next year.

In the decision to postpone the trial, US District Judge Dabney Friedrich cited the discovery of new evidence that defense attorneys want to examine.

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi is charged in the U.S. with making the bomb that downed the airplane, killing 270 people, most of them Americans.

The explosion killed all 259 passengers and crew members and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie