A bomb exploded outside a car dealer in southern Pakistan today, killing two people and wounding three.

LAWYERS for the only man convicted over the September 11 attacks in the United States said yesterday they will call for the case against him to be thrown out when he returns to trial this month.

THE only September 11 suspect ever convicted was freed by a German court yesterday pending the outcome of his retrial on charges of aiding the suicide pilots.

A HAMBURG court yesterday acquitted a Moroccan man of helping the September 11 hijackers after a 5½-month trial that was only the second anywhere of a suspected attacker.

US OFFICIALS led the interrogation of a key al-Qaida suspect Ramzi Binalshibh yesterday, as Pakistan pondered likely extradition requests from the US or Germany.