A truck exploded near the Australian Embassy in central Baghdad today, killing two people and wounding four, police and witnesses said.

Last year’s bombing of the Marriott hotel in the Indonesian capital Jakarta was inspired by Osama bin Laden, a militant convicted of the attack said today.

The younger brother of terror suspect Hambali has been jailed for four years on charges of helping to finance last year’s bombing of the Marriott hotel in Jakarta.

A car bomb targeting a US military convoy exploded near the Australian Embassy in Baghdad, killing at least two people, police and the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.

Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him ”Googled” his name on the internet to investigate his work before releasing him unharmed, the journalist’s executive producer said today.

Indonesian police today announced the arrests of four suspects in the suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy – the first major breakthrough in an investigation into the deadly attack.

Indonesian police have detained at least seven people including a would-be suicide bomber over possible links with the suspected masterminds of last week’s deadly bombing at the Australian Embassy.

A bomb attack near the Australian Embassy in Indonesia today in which at least seven people were killed may have been the work of a British-trained engineer who has eluded capture for nearly three years, Malaysian security officials said.