A blood-stained pillow, blanket and baby wipes were found in the bedroom of a one-year-old child who died after her Irish nanny allegedly assaulted her, according to court records.

Harrowing detail of the last few hours of Rehma Sabir’s life have emerged in a “statement of probable cause” presented at Aisling McCarthy Brady’s court appearance.

The guilty pleas last week by two former Credit Suisse Group traders, on charges of falsifying their company’s asset values, revive an age-old question: How dumb do you have to be to get criminally convicted for a fraud you committed while working at a bank deemed too big to fail?

The US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan said the September 11 2001 attacks “wouldn’t have happened” if Americans had been forewarned to be on the lookout for terrorism.

AL-QAIDA chief Osama bin Laden is involved in an unfolding plot to launch attacks on European cities and may have also targeted the United States, a radio report said.

A US-trained Pakistani scientist was convicted of attempting to kill FBI agents and others while detained in Afghanistan.

A Pakistani scientist allegedly linked to al Qaida will go on trial in New York today, accused of shooting at FBI agents in Afghanistan.

Australian police continue to suspect that an Indian doctor was part of the failed British bombing conspiracy last month despite a charge against him being dropped for lack of evidence, a government minister said.

A suicide attacker today detonated a bomb at a mass prayer service in southern Pakistan, police said, killing at least 41 other people including the top leadership of an influential Sunni Muslim religious group.

Bangladesh’s main opposition Awami League will end its year-long boycott and return to parliament tomorrow, a party spokesman said.

Two stationmasters and an engineer face criminal charges today after a head-on train crash that killed at least 37 people in northern India was blamed on a communications blunder.

THE US military, facing an Arab world backlash for its treatment of Iraqi prisoners, announced yesterday it had launched an investigation into a complaint of detainee abuse in Afghanistan.

The al-Qaida terror network may turn to using women for surprise attacks after having its ranks thinned by a series of recent arrests, FBI officials warned today.

FBI Director Robert Mueller says investigators have established the true identities of all 19 of the September 11 hijackers and have identified places outside the United States where the plot was hatched.

A country in mourning poured its grief into prayer and defiant chants, showing unity in the flicker of thousands of candles at vigils across America.