Two bombs exploded inside a mosque in Mogadishu’s main market today in the first Iraq-style bombing inside a house of worship in Somalia. At least 30 people were killed and 70 wounded, officials said.

Two children were killed in an explosion which tore through a group of civilians and US soldiers visiting a road construction project, a spokesman for the governor of an eastern Afghanistan province said today.

A permanent prison is being built at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre where hundreds of terrorist suspects are held, it emerged today.

Animal rescue teams were due to leave for Kabul today on a mercy mission to save creatures caught up in the Afghanistan conflict.

The West’s growing dependency on ‘‘fast food culture’’ will lead to increasing calls for a swift resolution to the Afghanistan conflict, an academic said today.