Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a group of tourists near one of India's biggest mosques today, injuring two Taiwanese and raising concerns about security less than two weeks before an international sporting event in the Indian capital.

CHARLIE Wilkins, the well known gardening columnist, will be leading an unusual Mediterranean cruise in September. The trip will include a flight from Cork to Barcelona, with two nights on terra firma, and seven further days and nights on the high seas, with the liner calling into such ports as Nice, Pisa/Florence, Rome, Naples and Sicily.

A series of explosions rocked Kashmir and New Dehli today, injuring at least 27 people.

THOUSANDS of people rampaged through Kathmandu, setting fire to a mosque and Arab targets and ransacking employment agencies after 12 Nepalese hostages were murdered in Iraq.