Two men secretly filmed mixing the type of explosive used in London’s July 7 bombings were today convicted in Denmark of preparing a terrorist attack.

Suspected Islamic militants decapitated a taxi driver in north-western Pakistan over suspicion that he was a US spy and a frequent visitor to a US military base in Afghanistan, an intelligence official said today.

ANTI-AMERICAN religious parties in Pakistan swept to power in Afghan border areas in yesterday’s elections as no single party emerged with an overall majority.

Afghanistan’s interim Prime Minister, Hamid Karzai, has vowed to arrest Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, who has reportedly escaped from the Baghran district despite being surrounded by anti-Taliban forces.

Hundreds of armed pro-Taliban Pakistanis seized a remote northern town today and demanded that the military-led Government should stop supporting the US-led strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan, witnesses said.