Security officials in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province said today they arrested a teenager allegedly involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last month.

A bridge collapsed today under the weight of thousands of hungry cyclone victims stampeding toward a relief centre in south-western Bangladesh, and officials said at least one person died and 100 were injured.

THE talk of the European Hockey Championships has been the sudden and unexpected appearance of five Koreans in the Azerbaijan ladies team.

KOREAN negotiators, accompanied by Afghan elders and clerics, met face-to-face with the kidnappers of 23 South Koreans yesterday as a threatened Taliban deadline to execute them passed by once again.

Two bomb blasts on a road in Kandahar city killed 10 police officers and wounded five, an Afghan official said.

AT least three of the men arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a series of transatlantic flights were converts to Islam, it emerged yesterday.

At least three of the men arrested on suspicion of being involved in a terror plot to blow up a series of transatlantic planes had converted to Islam, it emerged today.

A crowded bus carrying a wedding party hit an anti-tank mine yesterday in a volatile region of south-western Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and wounding eight, a doctor and officials said.

An air strike in a remote Pakistani tribal area that killed at least 17 people was targeting al-Qaida second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri, who may have been using a suspected terrorist hideout, a senior official said today.

SEVERAL newspapers carried front page pictures of the “utterly British” Colwyn Road where Shehzad Tanweer lived in a semi-detached white pebbledash house.

The future of the British-led multinational security force in Afghanistan was unclear today as Afghan leaders were divided about how long it should remain in the war-ravaged nation.

Afghan leaders were divided today over how long the British-led multinational security force should remain in the war-ravaged nation.

US and British special forces are helping to comb the mountains of the Tora Bora region for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida fighters who survived the siege.

Al-Qaida fighters holding out in the terror gang’s final Afghan stronghold are facing an ultimatum to surrender or be annihilated.

A US B-52 aircraft has bombed the Tora Bora area after cornered al-Qaida forces ignored a surrender deadline set by the opposing tribal eastern alliance.

Anti-Taliban tribal warlords in eastern Afghanistan have declared a ceasefire in their battle with

US Secretary of State Colin Powell today sparked confusion over the role British forces might play in a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan.

Hundreds of anti-Taliban troops have been battling with Osama bin Laden's fighters near mountain hideouts.

US forces are currently plotting a large mountain operation in Afghanistan after targeting the area from the air.