WITH ruthless criminals barking mad and wanting to take their predecessors for a long walk off a short pier, two Irish labrador retrievers have been drafted in by the Malaysian government to sniff out pirate DVDs.

A powerful earthquake jolted western Indonesia today, killing at least 70 people and injuring hundreds as they fled shaking buildings, crumpled homes and hospitals, authorities said. Two school children were crushed by debris on a playground.

A powerful earthquake flattened hundreds of buildings in western Indonesia today, killing as many as 70 people and leaving hospitals grappling with scores of injured.

A powerful earthquake in western Indonesia killed at least nine people today, flattening hundreds of buildings and overwhelming hospitals on Sumatra island.

MORE than 110,000 Malaysians have been forced to flee their homes as floods worsen in the south and on Borneo island, officials said, as relief workers struggled to feed and shelter victims.

Authorities found more than 70 more bodies in flood-ravaged villages in western Indonesia today, officials said.

RELENTLESS floods in southern Malaysia have killed six people and forced about 75,000 from their homes.

‘DEMOLITION Man’ and ‘Moneyman’ are suspected of being the masterminds behind the latest Bali bombings.

RIDUAN Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, is a 38-year-old Islamic scholar who was born in Indonesia's West Java province.

Malaysia has arrested three members of a suicide bomb squad involved in a thwarted terrorist plot to attack Western embassies in Singapore, officials said today.