Indonesian police on Monday identified a suicide bomber who blew himself up and wounded 30 people at a Muslim on Friday prayer as a man on a police wanted list over previous attacks.

Sri Lanka's main Tamil political party on Monday hailed a leaked UN report which called for an international war crimes probe into the island's political and military leadership.

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.

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.

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.