Protester dies as anger over anti-Islam film escalates

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet around the Middle East and other Muslim countries.

Protesters smashed into the German Embassy in the Sudanese capital and set part of it on fire. Others climbed the walls of the US Embassy in Tunis, waving an Islamist banner.

One protester was killed in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli in clashes with security forces, after a crowd of protesters set fire to a KFC and an Arby’s restaurant. Protesters hurled stones and glass at police in a furious melee that left 25 people wounded, 18 of them police.