World highlights

• A Taliban suicide bomber blew up a police bus in the heart of the Afghan capital, killing more than 20 people in the single deadliest bombing to hit Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted in 2001. The blast tore apart the bus, wounding dozens...

• A Taliban suicide bomber blew up a police bus in the heart of the Afghan capital, killing more than 20 people in the single deadliest bombing to hit Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted in 2001. The blast tore apart the bus, wounding dozens of bystanders, wrecking several other vehicles and scattering body parts.

• A Serb police general indicted for crimes against humanity for ordering the killings of Kosovo Albanians in 1998-99 was arrested and was on his way to The Hague war crimes tribunal. Vlastimir Djordjevic is the second Serb fugitive to be held in three weeks.

• German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed on with her drive to reach a consensus on the outlines of a new European Union treaty at a summit this week, with Poland still showing resistance to her plans. Ms Merkel held four hours of talks on Saturday with Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who stuck to Warsaw's demands for a re-weighting of EU voting rights in the charter for reforming the bloc's institutions.

• Thousands of lawyers and opposition activists greeted Pakistan's suspended Chief Justice as he travelled to the country's heartland on the weekend in a campaign against the President's move to sack him. Supporters of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry waited through the night as he took more than 20 hours to reach the industrial city of Faisalabad from the capital Islamabad, a journey that normally takes four hours.

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