Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam video broke through a barricade near the US consulate in the southern city of Karachi yesterday, sparking clashes with police in which one demonstrator was killed and more than a dozen injured.

A religious foundation in Iran has increased a reward for killing British author Salman Rushdie to $3.3m from $2.8m in response to alleged insults to the Prophet Muhammad, according to newspaper reports.