Nine terror suspects and a bystander died after militants launched co-ordinated car bombings and battled security forces in the Saudi capital.

A Pakistani plane with 276 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing soon after take-off from the eastern city of Lahore when one of its engines caught fire, an official said today.

A confidant of Osama bin Laden, seen on a videotape with the al-Qaida chief as he talked about the September 11 terror attacks, has surrendered to Saudi diplomats in Iran and has been flown to the Saudi capital.

A militant who is suspected of masterminding the May 12 suicide bombings in the Saudi capital has been arrested, state radio reported today.

An al-Qaida commander warned the terror network was about to stage major attacks in Saudi Arabia in an e-mail just a day before the deadly suicide bombings in Riyadh, an Arab magazine has reported.