A five-year-old boy was killed and dozens of people wounded today wounded when a powerful bomb ripped through a teeming bus terminal in the Philippines.

The Philippines has temporarily banned all imports of live birds and poultry products from Britain after a bird flu outbreak in Suffolk.

Muslim extremists beheaded at least two of six Jehovah’s Witnesses they kidnapped in the southern Philippines and dumped their heads in a public market, authorities said today.

A Muslim extremist group has offered to hold final negotiations to release two Americans and a Filipino nurse they have held hostage for more than 11 months, a radio station reported today.

A military helicopter went down while airlifting bodies from an earlier chopper accident, officials in the Philippines said today. The two crashes killed 13 people.