A teenage suicide bomber has attacked a French-run high school in Kabul during a music performance, killing at least one person and wounding up to 20.

BEFORE I landed in Maputo, the images of Mozambique I’d been toying with were predictable.

TAKING the law into their own hands, Baghdad residents blockaded streets and beat up looters yesterday as disorder spread in the Iraqi capital.

Looting surged and buildings were set on fire across Baghdad today while American troops focused more on fighting pockets of resistance than on keeping order.