Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam video broke through a barricade near the US consulate in the southern city of Karachi yesterday, sparking clashes with police in which one demonstrator was killed and more than a dozen injured.

Turkish police launched a nationwide crackdown on suspected militants linked to the al-Qaida terror network, rounding up 120 people in simultaneous pre-dawn raids.

Canadians are being invited to hurl their footwear at Montreal’s US Consulate on Saturday in solidarity with an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George Bush this week.

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.

A car bombing possibly launched by a suicide attacker killed four people, including an American diplomat, and wounded 49 outside the US consulate and a luxury hotel in Karachi today.

At least one car bomb exploded today outside the US consulate and a luxury hotel in Karachi, killing four people and wounding 49, two days ahead of a visit to Pakistan by the US president, police said.

The US Consulate in Lagos reopened today after a phoned-in terrorist threat prompted it to close down last week.

A team of US Marines have arrived in the Red Sea port of Jeddah to assist in security at the US Consulate that came under attack by Islamic militants, a American Embassy official said today.

Saudi security forces have confirmed an unknown number of hostages have been taken inside the US consulate in Jeddah.

Pakistani authorities have arrested the alleged mastermind of a deadly bombing near the US Consulate in Karachi two years ago, but another key member of his network is still on the run, a senior official said today.

The senior general in Pakistan’s volatile city of Karachi narrowly escaped an assassination today as his motorcade came under a gun and bomb ambush that left at least nine people dead.

Five police officers were killed when unidentified gunmen stormed a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi today, authorities said.

Thousands of protesters marched in Australian cities today demanding an end to the US military occupation in Iraq, kicking off a wave of worldwide rallies to mark the first anniversary of the war.

Explosive experts today defused a bomb in a small van parked next to the heavily guarded US Consulate in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, sparing the building from “big destruction”, police said.

FORMER US Marine Toby Studabaker will not fight extradition to Britain from Germany, he told a court yesterday.

Saudi and US officials say Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida group may launch fresh terror attacks in the United States or against American interests overseas.

A man standing with a gun outside the US Consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Dhahran was arrested today.

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.

Thousands of Australian anti-war protesters, many of them students in school uniforms, pelted Sydney police with bottles and chairs grabbed from cafes today, and then hurled more bottles outside the office of Prime Minister John Howard.

German police turned water cannons on school students outside the US consulate today during their first clashes with demonstrators protesting against the war in Iraq.

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.

Gunmen opened fire on a guard post outside the US Consulate in Karachi today, killing two policemen and injuring at least five others.

Gunmen opened fire inside a Shiite mosque in Karachi today, killing eight worshippers and injuring at least 10 others, police and hospital officials said.

Twelve people were killed and dozens injured in two explosions that rocked a popular resort on the tourist island of Bali, police and hospital workers said tonight.

Thousands of Pakistanis gathered Sunday outside Karachi’s main cathedral at a memorial for the seven latest victims of attacks on Christians – charity workers shot at their office last week – to demand government protection for minority Christians, .

GUNMEN entered the offices of a Christian welfare organisation in Karachi yesterday, tied office workers to their chairs and shot each of them in the head at close range, killing at least seven.

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

Three nurses and an attacker died today when grenades were hurled at people leaving a church at a Christian hospital near Islamabad.

Police have charged a member of Pervez Musharraf's security team with planning to assassinate the Pakistani President.

Pakistan has evidence that al-Qaida financed last month’s deadly car-bombing at the US consulate in Karachi that killed at least 12 people, the country’s internal security chief said today.

Pakistani police are questioning seven men in connection with last week's car bombing at the US Consulate.

Five people have died in suicide bombing outside the US Consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi.

The anthrax scare is spreading amid fears America is under terror attack through its postal service.

Brazilian police arrested two men who allegedly threw a box into the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro, saying it was a bomb.