World highlights

¤ Bombs killed two worshippers at mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers and authorities extended a daytime curfew on the capital Baghdad after one of the bloodiest weeks this year.

¤ Nato chiefs toured volatile areas of southern Afghanistan yesterday and vowed they were ready to take on a resurgent Taliban, 10 days ahead of the alliance's landmark mission in the country.

¤ India arrested three men in connection with bombings last week in Mumbai that killed more than 180 men, and urged Pakistan yesterday to hand over a top Kashmiri militant as a gesture in the fight against terrorism.

¤ Charles Taylor is not happy about conditions in the Hague jail he was moved to last month, his lawyer said yesterday as the former Liberian president appeared in court for the first time since he left Sierra Leone.

¤ Islamist leaders called yesterday for Somalis to prepare for war, as residents said Ethiopian troops were moving closer to Mogadishu, seat of the Muslim militia now holding much of the Horn of Africa nation.

¤ Floods and other disasters brought by heavy rains in the wake of Tropical Storm Bilis have taken the death toll to 482 in China, as unusually strong rains battered other parts of north Asia in recent days.