World highlights

• At least 27 people were killed and dozens wounded when a suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of mourners at a funeral in Falluja, west of Baghdad, police said.

• Authorities confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in Wales yesterday, but said it was not the H5N1 strain, which is potentially deadly to humans and has caused scares in the past.

• Tamil Tiger boats attacked and infiltrated a Sri Lankan naval base off the island's far north, killing several sailors, while a rebel roadside bomb targeted an army bus near Colombo port killing one, the military said.

• A roadside bomb killed six policemen and a district chief in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Paktika, the provincial governor said. The blast occurred in Yahya Kheil district, close to the border with Pakistan, Paktika governor Akram Khpelwak said.

• Chancellor Angela Merkel urged developed nations to slash greenhouse gas emissions but played down prospects that a G8 summit next month would produce a breakthrough in the fight against global warming.