12/09/2001 - 04:27:11Back to War on Terrorism World Home
Reports from New York are saying three people have been arrested with a van of explosives.
The van was stopped along the New Jersey turn-pike near the George Washington Bridge.
It was not clear why police stopped the van but when they did they found it was laden down with tonnes of explosives.
Japanese police have detained a 23-year-old man wanted for allegedly abducting a teenage girl and holding her captive in his apartment for two years.
A three-year-old girl has been decapitated in an apparently random attack outside a Metro station in the Taiwanese capital.
Police said the post-mortem examination established the cause of death as multiple injuries.
An Iraqi man at the centre of a terror scare on an EasyJet flight from Vienna to London has been released without charge.
The prime minister of Pakistan has vowed to eliminate perpetrators of terror attacks such as the suicide bombing in Lahore that targeted Christians gathered for Easter, killing 70 people.
Storm Katie brought gale-force winds and heavy rain to large parts of southern and central England.
The death toll from the bombings in Brussels has risen to 35, Belgian officials said.
A breakaway Pakistani faction of the Taliban has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bombing in a Lahore park that killed 65 people.
