An Irish nanny living in the US, who has been charged with violently assaulting a baby who later died, may yet face a murder charge, the district attorney’s office has said.

An Irish nanny living illegally in America has been charged with violently assaulting a baby who later died, US authorities said.

A three-year-old girl remains in a critical condition after a suspected arson attack that killed her mother and four siblings.

Friends of a mother and her four children killed in a suspected arson attack have paid tribute to a “beautiful, well-behaved family”.

A doctor who lost his wife and four children in a suspected arson attack on their home "fought hard" to save them, British police said.

Gunmen opened fire on a political rally in Karachi, Pakistan today, killing at least nine people and sparking rioting, police said.

THE FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small planes just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al Qaida threats to small planes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Swedish police evacuated 273 people from a Pakistan International Airlines jet diverted to Stockholm due to a bomb alert today and briefly detained a passenger on suspicion of preparing aircraft sabotage.

A plane carrying 273 people bound from Canada for Pakistan has landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport because of a bomb threat on board, an airport spokesman said today.

At least 37 people were shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan following the assassination of a politician, hospital chiefs said today.

A PASSENGER jet crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan’s capital Islamabad amid poor weather yesterday, killing all 152 people on board and blazing a path of devastation strewn with bodies and wreckage.

An American student extradited from Britain admitted on the eve of his terrorism trial that he helped a friend deliver protective clothing to an al Qaida commander in Afghanistan.

A message the sole surviving Mumbai massacre gunman hoped to get to his backers in Pakistan was ordered to be kept secret by a judge in India today.

THE lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks pleaded guilty and gave a detailed account of the plot and his role in the rampage along with 10 gunmen that left 166 people dead and paralysed the city for three days.

The sole surviving gunman from last year’s Mumbai massacre dramatically admitted his guilt today in a detailed account of the plot that left 166 people dead.

Fighting continued today in the middle of Mumbai as chaos and confusion surrounded terrorist attacks that killed more than 100 people.

Indian troops said they had cleared Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel of terrorists and begun to remove bodies and hostage from the building.

Murdered Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will be laid to rest near her father in the family's ancestral village today.

A recently constructed road bridge collapsed in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi today, killing at least four people and injuring others, officials said.

An American member of al-qaida threatened foreign diplomats and embassies across the Islamic world in a new video, saying they would targeted as “spy dens”.

Jamaican police should face legal action for declaring Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer’s death murder, the team’s World Cup spokesman said today.

Angelina Jolie and Mariane Pearl – the widow the Hollywood actress plays in her new movie – are appearing at the Cannes Film Festival today.

A US journalist who was abducted and killed in Pakistan had his name added to a Holocaust memorial in Florida.

Transcripts show that suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, according to a revised transcript released by the US military.

ntelligence agents in Pakistan arrested at least seven people, including two British nationals of Pakistani origin, who provided information on the terror plot aimed at blowing up US-bound passenger jets from Britain, a senior government official said today.

A suicide attacker rammed a car packed with high-intensity explosives into a vehicle carrying an American diplomat in Karachi, Pakistan today, killing four people and wounding 52 outside the US consulate.

Arab and Islamic governments should pressure the United Nations to ban the slandering of religions, said more than 200 Arab politicians who renewed their criticism today of the contentious Prophet Muhammad cartoons.

A powerful bomb exploded outside the front entrance to a KFC restaurant in Karachi, Pakistan, today, killing at least three people and injuring 12 others, witnesses said.

An alleged terror fundraiser charged with siphoning money to and from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network to help bankroll attacks appeared in an Australian court today.

A senior planner of the September 11 2001 attacks said the Hamburg al-Qaida cell was smaller than investigators believed, consisting only of himself and three of the suicide pilots, a German court was told in the first public release of statements by suspects in US custody.

Macedonian police gunned down seven innocent Pakistani immigrants, then claimed they were terrorists, in a killing staged to show they were participating in the US-led war on terror, authorities said.

War took its toll on journalists in 2003, killing at least 83 reporters and media staff worldwide – 13 more than in 2002, the International Federation of Journalists said today.

MOHAMMED ATTA, the man believed to have led the terror cell that plotted and executed the September 11 attacks, was no more than second in command in the group, a German magazine has claimed.

US authorities say they have uncovered a plan by al-Qaida to crash an explosives-laden aircraft into the American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, which prompted the Homeland Security Department to warn about possible attacks in the United States.

GUNMEN opened fire on a police post guarding the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan yesterday, killing two policemen and injuring at least five others, police and hospital officials said.

Afghan Industries Minister Juma Mohammed Mohammedi was on board a small plane that crashed today after taking off from an airport in Karachi, Pakistan.

Interfaith memorial services will be held in major cities around the world, including London, over the next few days to mark the anniversary of the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Three bodies, their feet and hands bound and their throats cut, were found in the rubble of the offices of the honorary consul of Macedonia, in Karachi, Pakistan, which was destroyed in an overnight explosion.

A statement attributed to al Qaida threatened more attacks in New York and Washington unless the US stops supporting Israel and converts to Islam, an Arab TV reporter who received the unsigned document said.

A Pakistani man who killed two CIA employees in a 1993 shooting rampage outside the agency’s US headquarters has been executed as the government warned of global retaliation against Americans.

POLICE in Virginia have stepped up security in advance of tonight’s execution of a Pakistani convicted of killing two CIA employees and wounding three others nine years ago.

Shooting broke out today at the office of a Christian charity in Karachi, Pakistan, killing six people, according to reports.

There have been reports of a large explosion in Karachi, Pakistan.