The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend.

The fatal explosions in Boston have hints of a right-wing terrorist attack rather than al Qaida-inspired extremism, according to one of the world’s leading experts on counter-terrorism.

Indian officials today urged tourists not to boycott the palm-fringed resorts of Goa after Israel warned its citizens away from the popular tourist destination, citing concrete threats of an al-Qaida attack.

PROSECUTORS in the first major terror trial after September 11 were hindered by superiors from presenting some of their most powerful evidence.

President George Bush today accepted responsibility for a discredited portion his State of the Union address that suggested deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was shopping for nuclear material in Africa.