Security forces in the Philippines have recaptured 34 out of 158 inmates who escaped after what are thought to be heavily-armed Muslim rebels stormed a jail in the country's south, officials have said.

Two men were arrested today on suspicion of setting off a bomb in a busy shopping centre in the Philippines, police said.

A luggage bomb exploded in a crowded Philippines shopping centre killing one person and injuring seven others.

At least six people were killed and another 29 wounded when a bomb exploded during a town festival today in the southern Philippines.

At least 16 people were injured today in the southern Philippines when a bomb exploded as police tried to defuse it.