Another powerful quake hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island today, the US Geological Survey said.

INDONESIA’S most wanted Islamist militant was killed in a police shoot-out in Central Java, police said yesterday, lifting a major security threat ahead of a planned visit by US President Barack Obama.

A small Indonesian Navy aircraft crashed off Sumatra island after trying to make an emergency sea landing today, killing four officers and leaving three others missing, officials said.

Rescuers continued their search for survivors today after three separate landslides killed 40 people on a remote eastern Indonesian island, with scores of people believed to be buried under the mud.

Parts of a plane that crashed with 102 people on board have been found by fishermen or washed to shore in north-west Indonesia today, 10 days after the plane disappeared in stormy weather, officials said.

An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 102 people disappeared in stormy weather today, and rescue teams were sent to search an area where military aviation officials feared the Boeing 737-400 aircraft may have crashed.

Around 500 people are still missing today, a day after an Indonesian ferry sank in a storm.

RUMOURS of another killer wave sparked mass panic yesterday in the town hardest hit by the Indonesian tsunami, while the death toll rose to 531, with more than 270 missing.

Rumours of another killer wave sparked mass panic today in the town hardest hit by the Indonesian tsunami, while the death toll rose to 531, with more than 270 missing.

A two-metre-high tsunami crashed into beach resorts and fishing villages along Indonesia’s Java island today, killing at least 47 people, leaving scores missing and sending thousands fleeing to higher ground in terror, witnesses and officials said.

Iran’s president today said that Israel’s government was a regime based on evil, but also said he was ready to negotiate with the US and other countries over his country’s nuclear programme.

An explosion inside the headquarters of the paramilitary police command in a western Indonesian city killed four people, including two officers, today and injured several others.

Three militants on death row for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings defended the blasts in a government-backed TV documentary aimed at blunting support for extremist Islam in Indonesia.

Malaysian terror leader Azahari bin Husin was believed to have been killed in a shoot-out with police today, a top Indonesian investigator said.

AN INDONESIAN jetliner crashed into a crowded neighbourhood moments after a shaky take-off yesterday and burst into flames, killing 147 people, including dozens on the ground.

Indonesia recorded its first human death linked to bird flu today after tests confirmed that a man who died earlier this month had the virus, the health minister said.

Indonesia’s first outbreak of polio in a decade has infected at least four toddlers, the World Health Organisation said today.

A video delivered to an international news organisation has apparently shown the release of two Indonesian journalists who were kidnapped in the volatile Iraqi city of Ramadi last week.

Two Indonesian journalists were missing in the turbulent Iraqi city of Ramadi, the country’s Foreign Ministry said today, stopping short of saying they’d been abducted by insurgents.

An amateur video taken as a tsunami swept through Indonesia’s Aceh province and aired on national television for the first time today showed a roiling torrent of dark brown water engulfing a busy street, picking up cars and minivans and sending people scrambling up the sides of buildings.

TIDAL waves swamped towns in northwestern Indonesia close to the epicentre of yesterday’s massive undersea earthquake, killing at least 4,185 people and leaving corpses wedged in trees as waters receded, the health ministry and witnesses said.

TOWNS nearest the epicentre of yesterday’s massive earthquake were levelled by tidal waves, killing at least 4,185 people and leaving bodies wedged in trees as the waters receded, officials and witnesses said.

A FORMER general who has pledged to get tough on terrorism and fix the economy won a landslide victory over incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia's landmark elections yesterday.

Twelve people were killed and dozens injured in two explosions that rocked a popular resort on the tourist island of Bali, police and hospital workers said tonight.

At least five people were killed and dozens injured today after two bombs exploded on the tourist island of Bali.

Riot police in Indonesia today used tear gas, warning shots and water cannon to disperse hundreds of Muslims staging protests against the United States outside the Parliament building in Jakarta.