A TALIBAN militant and his wife carried out a suicide bombing on a police station in Pakistan on Saturday that killed 12 policemen, a Taliban spokesman said yesterday.

Several dozen Afghan detainees were released from a jail on the main US military base in Afghanistan today after they were determined to no longer present a threat to security.

THREE Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were jailed for up to ten years yesterday after a trial denounced by the defence as failing to meet basic international standards of fairness.