Dozens of Indonesian investigators combed the hills with sniffer dogs today, searching for clues about masked assailants who beheaded three Christian schoolgirls and wounded a fourth.

Two bombs exploded Saturday at a busy market in central Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and wounding 40 others in a volatile area marred by years of inter-religious fighting, a police official said.

A bomb on a minibus exploded today on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing five people and raising tensions in a region where religious fighting killed nearly 1,000 people three years ago.

YOU may think I’ve got my dates mixed up, but in the current media clamour to get a new angle on Christmas I have been thinking about Mel Gibson’s forthcoming film, The Passion, which focuses on the end of Jesus Christ’s life on earth, not his birth.

An earthquake has rocked parts of Central Sulawesi in Indonesia, injuring dozens of villagers.

Four people were killed and at least 17 others injured today when a bomb exploded on a packed commuter bus in Indonesia, police said.

Gunmen on a speedboat opened fire on a ferry carrying Christians in Indonesia’s eastern Maluku islands today, killing 10 people.

More than 3,000 Muslims have marched in front of a local parliament building in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province today in the fourth day of protests against the continuing US attacks on Afghanistan.