Five people were killed and more than a hundred injured when spectators stampeded during a riot in a football stadium in northern Syria.

Yemeni investigators today said they strongly suspect a man who gunned down four American missionaries had links to the al-Qaida terror network.

The US has frozen the assets of 25 worldwide terrorist groups including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and the Real IRA.

Afghanistan's Taliban militia has denied that Osama bin Laden, the man suspected of masterminding the terrorist attacks on the US, is under house arrest.

Osama bin Laden, the man suspected of having masterminded the terrorist attacks on the US, is under house arrest, it was claimed today.