Eight people have died in a suicide bomb attack targeting the Danish Embassy in Pakistan in a wealthy residential area of Islamabad today.

Arabs today criticised a Danish court’s decision to exonerate the newspaper that first published the Prophet Mohammed cartoons that provoked riots across the Muslim world.

Malaysia’s leader today warned of a “huge chasm” between Muslims and the West, as thousands of people took to the streets in Asia for the largest demonstrations yet in the Prophet Mohammed cartoons row.

More than 5,000 Muslims paraded in Bangladesh’s capital today to protest against the publication of drawings of Prophet Mohammed.

Police have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of angry protesters who hurled stones and fire bombs at the Danish Embassy in Tehran, in the second attack on a Western embassy in the Iranian capital today over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

An editor of a small Malaysian newspaper has resigned for reprinting Danish newspaper caricatures of Prophet Muhammad, which have unleashed a storm of protests across the Islamic world.

MUSLIM rage over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed spilled out of Syria yesterday into neighbouring Lebanon where thousands of protesters torched the Danish mission and ransacked a Christian neighbourhood.

Muslim rage over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed spilled out of Syria today into neighbouring Lebanon where thousands of protesters – undaunted by police tear gas and water cannons – torched the Danish mission and ransacked a Christian neighbourhood.

Thousands of Muslims rioted in Beirut today, setting fire to the Danish Embassy, burning Danish flags and lobbing stones at a Maronite church to show their anger over caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

Thousands of outraged Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus today, setting fire to both buildings in protest at offensive caricatures of Islam’s prophet.

The setting-fire to the Danish Embassy in Damascus today follows near-daily demonstrations outside the Danish Embassy there since the furore over drawings depicting the Prophet Mohammed broke out last week.

Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish Embassy in Damascus today and set fire to the building, witnesses said.

Witnesses say Syrian protesters have stormed and set fire to the Danish Embassy building in Damascus.

Hardline Muslims in Indonesia barged into a high-rise building housing the Danish Embassy today to protest the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, and then tore down and burned the country’s white and red flag.