A 22-inch tall man has left his home country of Nepal in a quest to be recognised as the world’s shortest man.

A bomb exploded in a church in the Nepalese capital during morning mass today, killing two people and wounding 15.

Police fired rubber bullets at thousands of protesters on the eastern edge of the Nepalese capital today, injuring at least three, news reports said.

Suspected communist rebels bombed a police station just south of the Nepalese capital today, police said. No casualties were reported.

Suspected rebels set off a powerful bomb in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu today, injuring at least 38 people.