Kenyan rescuers and soldiers cut through layers of concrete slab early today to free an unknown number of construction workers still trapped after a building collapsed in central Nairobi, killing at least 11 and injuring dozens.

A STRING of suicide attacks aimed at Iraqi security forces killed at least 36 people and wounded 19 more in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday, the US military and police officials said.

A suicide bomber hid explosives under watermelons in the back of a pick-up truck which he drove into a police headquarters in northern Iraq today,killing five people and wounding eight others, police and hospital officials said.