World Highlights

¤ A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded 50 in an attack in an Afghan provincial capital during a visit by the US ambassador, officials said. The envoy was unhurt.

Fifteen of the wounded were critically hurt in the incident in Tarin Kot, capital of the central province of Uruzgan, said Haji Abdul Aziz, the deputy provincial governor.

¤ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Iran would resume atomic fuel research despite warnings from the West that this would endanger efforts to find a diplomatic compromise over its nuclear plans.

Tuesday's announcement of a resumption after a break of more than two years brought swift demands for restraint from the European Union and Washington, who fear Iran seeks nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian atomic energy programme.

¤ Rescuers searched for possibly hundreds of victims buried under a massive landslide that crashed into a mountainous village in Indonesia's Central Java province.

Under blue skies after days of rain, four excavators were clearing debris and rescuers found several more mud-covered bodies, including a mother tightly hugging her child.

¤ President George W. Bush reached beyond his tight circle of trusted aides to solicit views on Iraq of former secretaries of state and defense, including some who have publicly criticized his policy.

The meeting, part of the President's effort to defend his policies on Iraq and the war on terrorism, took place as insurgent violence surged anew in Iraq.

¤ All but three of the 15 people killed when the roof of an ice rink in southern Germany collapsed were children aged between nine and 16, the police said.

Forensic experts, from the nearby Austrian city of Salzburg, who examined the corpses, said all the victims were killed instantly by falling debris and none would have been saved if rescue workers had reached them faster.