A series of co-ordinated explosions ripped through courts in three north Indian cities today killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens more.

A series of co-ordinated explosions ripped through courts in three north Indian cities today killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more.

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit a remote and mountainous area of north-east Afghanistan today, shaking buildings in the capital and as far away as Pakistan, Tajikistan and India.

Newsweek magazine has apologised to readers for errors in a story alleging US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Quran. The accusations, which the magazine vowed to re-examine, spawned protests in Afghanistan that left 15 dead and scores injured.

A GROUP of Afghan Muslim clerics threatened yesterday to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it hands over military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Koran.