‘Diplomat detained’ on US plane

A man has been detained after he tried to set fire to his shoes on a US flight, reports say.

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Second Moscow bomber identified

Russian officials have confirmed the identity of the second suicide bomber to attack the Moscow metro, a 28-year-old woman from Dagestan.

Live: General election 2010

1007 Gordon Brown has arrived at the Palace to meet the Queen. He should re-emerge shortly, having been granted a dissolution of Parliament

US anger at Pakistan mission raid

The US has expressed "great concern" over a deadly assault by militants on the American consulate in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban say they carried out the attack, which left three guards and four militants dead.

Limb loss rises among UK troops

Rising numbers of UK service personnel are losing limbs as a result of serving in Afghanistan, official figures show. Some 54 lost part or all of a limb in 2009, including 26 who lost more than one, the Ministry of Defence says. That compares with 30 amputees in 2008 and 12 the year before

Israel allows private imports into Gaza

Israel has allowed 10 trucks of clothes and shoes for Palestinian traders into the Gaza Strip for the first time since Hamas took over the territory in 2007. Food, medicines and fuel are allowed into the territory, but aide agencies say there are serious shortages.

Triple car bombing hits Baghdad

Three large explosions have gone off in quick succession in the centre of Baghdad, say witnesses. At least one of the blasts was near foreign embassies. It is not clear if there are any casualties or what caused the explosions in the Iraqi capital

Alert over Barrier Reef oil leak

A Chinese ship has run aground off north-eastern Australia, sparking an alert of an oil leak into the Great Barrier Reef.

‘The leader’

South African white supremacist paramilitary leader Eugene Terreblanche mounted his trusty black horse Attila after his release from prison. In that moment, he showed that he was still as much a master of the grand gesture as he had been throughout his singularly ineffectual political career. Even the name – “white earth” in French, the language of Terreblanche’s Huguenot ancestors – seemed too good to be real.

‘No delay’ for Sudanese elections

Sudan’s National Electoral Commission has said this month’s national polls will not be delayed, despite a boycott threat by a major opposition party. The Umma party’s conditions for participating included a delay of four weeks for the creation of a new body to supervise the electoral commission

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