A BOMB hidden in a minibus exploded near the offices of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in eastern Baghdad yesterday, killing two Iraqi civilians and wounding three, police said.

A BOMB exploded yesterday on a Baghdad street, killing three boys and a girl as they walked to school. The dead included two brothers and their sister.

A BOMB stashed in a pack of clothes exploded on a ferry in the southern Philippines as it was loading passengers yesterday morning, injuring at least 30 people, including nine children.

BOMB suspect Hussain Osman could be sent to London temporarily in a bid to settle any diplomatic problems between Britain and Italy over questioning him.

A BOMB killed an anti-Syrian politician yesterday in Beirut - the second such assassination in three weeks.

A BOMB exploded outside a bank in the northern city of Kirkuk yesterday, killing at least 22 people, including child street vendors and pensioners waiting for their checks.

A BOMB exploded in a bustling town in Indian-controlled Kashmir yesterday, killing 15 people, including the suspected attacker, and injuring at least 60 others, police said.

A BOMB strapped to a horse exploded in a remote town in south-west Colombia, destroying five vehicles and damaging 25 nearby homes but causing no casualties.

A BOMB exploded at a resort hotel in south-eastern Spain yesterday, reports said. The building had been evacuated and no one was injured.

A BOMB blast blew the front door off a Muslim elementary school in the Netherlands yesterday and extensively damaged the building in what police suspect was a revenge attack for the killing of a Dutch filmmaker last week.

A BOMB threat forced a passenger plane to divert to a British airport under military escort for an emergency landing yesterday.

A BOMB exploded during an Independence Day parade in India's remote northeast yesterday killing at least 15 people, including schoolchildren.

A BOMB exploded between two Israeli army checkpoints outside Jerusalem yesterday, killing two Palestinians and wounding 19 people in the first such attack for six months.

A BOMB exploded yesterday along a highway leading to Baghdad's airport, killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounding 11 others four critically.

A BOMB exploded outside Monaco’s main soccer stadium early yesterday.

A BOMB was sent to the Belfast offices of the Democratic Unionist Party deputy leader Peter Robinson, he said last night.

A BOMB apparently hidden in a pickup truck exploded yesterday at the offices of a US-allied Kurdish political party in Kirkuk, killing five people and wounding 40, including children.

A BOMB exploded outside the house of one of Iraq's most important Shi'ite clerics yesterday, killing three guards and injuring 10 others.

A BOMB tore through a minibus in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing 17, half of them children, in the second deadly attack in less than a week to be blamed on Taliban guerrillas.

A BOMB exploded yesterday near a US military vehicle on the road to Baghdad’s airport, and assailants threw grenades at a US-led convoy, killing an American soldier and two Iraqi civilians.

A BOMB targeting a bus carrying workers to Russia's main military base in its turbulent Chechnya region killed three people yesterday, security sources said.

A BOMB exploded near a fast-food restaurant at Jakarta’s main airport yesterday, wounding at least seven.

A BOMB ripped through a bus in suburban Manila yesterday, killing at least three people and injuring 23 others.