AFP - Anti-terror police were on high alert in Pakistan on Saturday as mass burials took place for the victims of a suicide bomber who killed at least 59 people at a Shiite Muslim rally.

AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair warned on Sunday that the roots of radical Islam were far deeper than we think and said Al-Qaeda would have killed 300,000 on September 11, 2001 if they could.

AFP - Afghanistan paceman Khaliq Dad Noori Tuesday said his country was ready to play international cricket in Pakistan at a time when security fears have stopped most teams touring the terror-hit nation.

AP - A Somali-born Norwegian citizen pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of sending over $30,000 to top leaders of an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group at the start of the first trial under Norway's 2002 terror financing law.

AFP - The new chief of Indonesia's anti-terror agency complained Tuesday that courts were being too easy on terrorists and called for tougher laws to fight jihadist extremists.

AFP - Hundreds of Muslims radicalised in British prisons could launch a "new wave" of homegrown terrorism against the country with lone attacks that are difficult to prevent, experts warned Friday.

AP - A judge on Friday barred lawyers representing Sept. 11 responders exposed to World Trade Center dust from billing them $6.1 million in financing fees for the litigation, saying their fees are already "too much."

AFP - Eighteen nations on Friday wrapped up nearly two weeks of military exercises to defend the Panama Canal from mock terrorist attacks and other threats, the US Southern Command chief said.

AP - Iraq's prime minister put his nation on its highest level of alert for terror attacks, warning of plots to sow fear and chaos as the U.S. combat mission in the country formally ends on Tuesday.

AP - After nearly nine years, life is returning to ground zero in a tangible way.

AP - When police arrested a suspected al-Qaida cell in Norway last month they turned up the makings of a bomb lab tucked away in a nondescript Oslo apartment building.