'Slumdog Millionaire' child actors Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Rubina Rafiq Ali Qureshi may soon leave the slums which won them their fame, it was reported today.

A suicide car bomber struck an armoured vehicle carrying US troops near Kabul’s airport today, killing at least six Afghan civilians and wounding up to 20 others.

Gunmen smashed windows, burned buses and looted computers belonging to a private American school in Gaza before dawn today, an attack officials believed was linked to US President George Bush’s visit to the West Bank earlier this week.

A suicide truck bomber attacked a police station in one of Iraq’s major oil hubs today, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 in an area home to many refinery workers and engineers, police said.

Taliban militants ambushed a convoy carrying supplies for Nato-led troops in southern Afghanistan today, killing 10 Afghan guards, an official with the convoy said.

ONE of the biggest remaining Darfur rebel alliances yesterday said it would respect a ceasefire and was ready to resume peace talks with Sudan’s government.

The United Nations and African Union envoys for Sudan agreed to work “hand-in-hand” to try to bring all the warring parties to the peace table and convince them there is no military solution to the Darfur conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people.

Formal charges have been brought against 28 people for suspected involvement in the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed more than 200 people in western India.

Five girls drowned today while bathing in a canal near a picnic spot on the western outskirts of Pakistan’s main port city of Karachi, a doctor said.

Indian police have detained four men for questioning about bombings that killed 20 people at a temple and train station in Hinduism’s holiest city, a top state official said today.

Indian investigators believe one of Kashmir’s most notorious Islamic militant groups planted bombs that killed 20 people at a temple and train station in Hinduism’s holiest city, police said today.

A six-member Interpol team backed by Pakistani police arrested three brothers and another man – all British-born Pakistani citizens – wanted for three murders, a rape and other crimes in the UK, police said today.

Four Iraqi government employees from the Ministry of Public Works were gunned down today on their way to work, a ministry spokesman said.

Four people were killed in shelling at a checkpoint of the Fallujah Brigade, which had been patrolling the city since April, security and hospital officials said.

An Iraqi man told an Arab television station today that British troops tortured and killed his son in detention, and then apologised and offered him €2,500 in compensation for the death.

Indonesian prosecutors charged another nine suspects today in connection with last year’s Bali nightclub bombings.

Kenyan police are questioning three members of the same family in connection with the November 28 suicide attack at a coastal hotel that killed 11 Kenyans and three Israeli tourists, an independent television station and newspaper reported Sunday.

BAHRAINIS turned out in large numbers yesterday for the first national elections in a Gulf Arab state allowing women to vote and run for office.

Spanish police have arrested an Algerian man suspected of being the financial chief in Spain of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist network, the Spanish Interior Ministry said today.

Four members of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida organisation were being sentenced today just a few hundred yards from the World Trade Centre for their part in terrorist attacks in 1998.