FOUR men arrested after planting what they thought were explosives near two synagogues and plotting to shoot down a military plane were bent on carrying out a holy war against America, police said yesterday.

BRITISH police have given Pakistan a list of terror suspects with possible links to the London attacks, officials said, as two religious schools denied ever hosting one of the bombers.

Militants claiming to hold three UN hostages in Afghanistan, including Annetta Flanigan of Northern Ireland, said tonight they had delayed a decision on their fate.

AN Indian anti-terrorism court yesterday convicted four people, including a New Delhi college lecturer, over last December’s attack on parliament which almost triggered a war with Pakistan.

Two Indian soldiers were killed in a suspected Islamic militant attack on a border post in the disputed province of Kashmir last night.