A SENIOR al-Qaida suspect wanted for bombing American embassies in east Africa was killed in a US airstrike, a Somali official said yesterday.

Witnesses reported renewed air strikes aimed at Islamic militant targets in Somalia today, and a Somali official claimed that a senior al-Qaida figure had been killed.

A Somali official said today that an al-Qaida suspect who planned the 1998 US Embassy bombings was killed in airstrike.

Thirty Muslims walked off the job at a Tennessee plant after alleging the company refused to let them pray at sunset – the latest dispute over prayer between an American business and its Islamic employees.