Mitt Romney has said Barack Obama is trying to "ingratiate himself with the Kremlin" after the Russian president suggested the Republican presidential front-runner was living in a bygone era.

Indian forces killed 13 protesters and wounded scores of others in confrontations across Kashmir fuelled in part by a report that a Koran was desecrated in the United States, police said.

POLITICAL leaders paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on the 140th anniversary of his birth yesterday, which is also World Non-Violence Day.

The commission investigating the September 11 attacks reported today that Osama bin Laden met a top Iraqi official in 1994 but that it found “no credible evidence” of a link between Iraq and al-Qaida in attacks against the US.

Draft portions of the September 11 commission’s final report offer a stinging rebuke of the FBI and intelligence agencies, but refrain from assigning blame to individuals in government to avoid the appearance of partisanship, several commissioners say.