A third bomb was set to go off but malfunctioned before two suicide attackers blew themselves up in hotels in Jakarta last week, an Indonesian police official said today.

Animal rights activists are to take their latest campaign against live exports to the steps of the Australian Embassy today.

Two leaders of the feared Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah have been sentenced to 15 years in jail, dealing yet another blow to the group blamed for a string of deadly bombings in Indonesia.

A Chinese hijacker was shot dead after taking 10 foreign tourists hostage.

A close aide of Indonesia’s most-wanted terrorist has been arrested, police said today.

Osama bin Laden’s terror network helped fund all of the suicide bombings in Indonesia in the past four years, a senior police official said today, highlighting links between al-Qaida and the regional militant group Jemaah Islamiyah.

Australia today warned its citizens against travelling to Indonesia, saying it had credible evidence that terrorists were in the “advanced stages” of plotting a terror attack before the end of the year.

Restaurants on a Bali beach hit by terrorists ignored warnings they could be targeted following the discovery of a partially made bomb, a police official said today, as investigators took DNA samples from suspected relatives of the bombers.

Indonesia’s president said today that deadly bombings on tourist-packed restaurants in Bali and other terror strikes were battering the country’s reputation and called on his military to stamp out the scourge of terrorism in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

Two people were killed today in a series of blasts on the popular tourist island of Bali.

An Indonesian militant was today sentenced to death for helping plan and carry out last year’s suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy.

The British Embassy in the Indonesian capital has been evacuated after receiving a suspicious package, an embassy spokeswoman said today.

The first suspect to face charges in the 2004 bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta was sentenced to three and a half years in prison today for assisting the attack’s perpetrators.

Bacterial powder that sparked a terror alert when it was sent to the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra, Australia, was probably harmless, an initial police report said today, though tests were continuing.

Insurgents unleashed a wave of five car bombings across the capital, killing about a dozen people, despite stepped-up US and Iraqi measures to protect this month’s elections.

Indonesia ordered a nationwide security crackdown today after several foreign governments warned terrorists were preparing to launch attacks against Western targets ahead of Christmas.

Prime Minister John Howard scored a convincing victory in Australia’s federal election, winning a historic fourth term in a vote that will ensure the country keeps its troops in Iraq for the foreseeable future.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard appeared to be heading for a historic fourth-term victory in his country’s federal election today, in a vote that will ensure the country keeps its troops in Iraq.

A militant group claiming to have kidnapped two Indonesian women says it will free them if their government releases a Muslim cleric accused of heading an al Qaida-linked group, the Arab news station Al-Jazeera reported today.

Australia warned today that terrorists could be planning another attack on its citizens in Indonesia, two days after a bomb killed nine people outside Canberra’s embassy in Jakarta.

Parts of one of the most sacred shrines of Shia Islam suffered damage during clashes today between US forces and radical Shiite militiamen that left at least nine people dead.

An apparent car bomb exploded near an hotel in central Baghdad today, and a US military officer said five Iraqis were injured, one critically.

Australians will continue working in Saudi Arabia despite an Australian engineer being shot dead in an attack probably linked to al-Qaida, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.

Australia and Canada today closed their embassies in the Philippines capital Manila following a series of terrorist threats.