About two dozen gunmen held 35 passengers on a city bus for two hours on a main road in eastern Pakistan today, sparking a shootout with police that left one of the hostage-takers dead and two wounded.

The remains of one of the suspected London suicide bombers were buried in a remote village in Pakistan today, hours after his coffin arrived in this Islamic nation from Britain.

Militants pounded central Baghdad today with one of their most intense mortar barrages ever, targeting the Green Zone and destroying a US vehicle along a major street.

Insurgents detonated explosives on an oil well in northern Iraq sparking a fire that raged for 24 hours before being extinguished, a senior Iraqi security official said today.

ISLAMIC rebels set off an explosion near an army convoy yesterday, wounding 40 Indian soldiers and three civilians in the most visible attack in Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar since India and Pakistan entered a border truce in the divided province.

Explosives hidden under the snow in the main market of Baramula killed six people today, police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said.