ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has given heads of various departments under his ministry a one week deadline to end corruption.

ISLAMABAD - At least two policemen were killed and 10 others injured in a suicide bomb attack in Swabi district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday morning.

LONDON - Authorities in Yemen have released the 22-year-old woman suspected of posting two parcel bombs that were found on cargo planes in the UK and Dubai.

NEW DELHI - Congress President Sonia Gandhi held consultations with senior party leaders on Monday on the fate of Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan over the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam in Mumbai.

LONDON - Photographer Stuart Boulton has dug up an unusual looking carrot that has the shape of a foot complete with five toes in his allotment in Darlington, County Durham.