A daughter of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has taken refuge in the Saudi embassy in Tehran after eluding guards who have held her, her sister and four brothers under house arrest for eight years, it was reported.

TWO Islamic terror cells were rushing to become the first to stage a major “jihad” terror bombing in Australia, a prosecutor said yesterday.

Police in Australia arrested 16 terror suspects, including a radical Muslim cleric accused of leading a cell dedicated to “violent jihad", in a string of raids in the early hours of today and said they had foiled a catastrophic terror attack.