A Taliban suicide bomber who killed five foreign and four Afghan soldiers in a weekend attack in the East of the country was a member of the Afghan Army, Nato's coalition force said on Monday.

Toyota on Monday resumed operations at all its domestic plants that had been halted since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, with production volume still at around 50 per cent due to a parts shortage.

Jordanian security forces have arrested 70 Islamists after violent protests in which many people were hurt, most of them policemen, a security official told AFP on Saturday.

A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Army uniform killed five foreign troops and four Afghan soldiers on Saturday in a brazen attack at the Afghan Army's Eastern headquarters.

Five foreign troops died in an attack claimed by the Taliban on an Afghan Army base in the country’s East, the joint international force said on Saturday, while four Afghan troops were also killed.

A Syrian policeman was killed, state media reported on Saturday, as protests demanding freedoms and reform snowballed a month after they started in one of the West Asia’s most autocratic countries.

The Dalai Lama has urged restraint in a standoff with security forces at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in China, warning of "catastrophic consequences" if the situation deteriorates.

Desperate to revive the Indo-Pak bilateral cricket ties, the PCB is trying hard to convince the BCCI for a short one-day series in 2011 in Pakistan or at a neutral venue.

At least 17 people were wounded in a suspected suicide bomb attack during on Friday prayers at an mosque in a police compound in Indonesia's West Java province, the police said.

The police chief of Southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province has been killed in a suicide attack at the city's police headquarters, officials said on Friday.