In Brief

* SECURITY – Police found explosives planted at a memorial centre to the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, only days before the 10th anniversary is to be marked in the eastern Bosnian town.

* UNREST – Four militants were in a gunbattle with police at the Babri mosque temple complex in the Indian town of Ayodhya, the scene of deadly Hindu-Muslim riots in 1992, television reports said. * FLU – A global strategy to control the deadly bird flu virus within a decade was released by United Nations and animal health experts who appealed for millions in donor funds to make it a reality.* MILITARY – Two members of an American special forces team missing in Afghanistan for several days are dead, the BBC reported after the US military admitted civilians died in an air strike during a mission to rescue the servicemen.* KILLED – Four female employees at Baghdad airport were killed and three others wounded after gunmen attacked the minibus taking them to work, said an interior ministry source.* WEAPONS – International experts gathered in Vienna to discuss tightening restrictions on material that could be used for nuclear bombs, with Russia and the United States warning of the danger of nuclear terrorism.* QUAKE – A powerful earthquake measuring up to 6.7 on the Richter scale hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island, causing no damage but spreading panic among people still traumatised by earlier disasters.- Nampa-AFP* FLU – A global strategy to control the deadly bird flu virus within a decade was released by United Nations and animal health experts who appealed for millions in donor funds to make it a reality.* MILITARY – Two members of an American special forces team missing in Afghanistan for several days are dead, the BBC reported after the US military admitted civilians died in an air strike during a mission to rescue the servicemen.* KILLED – Four female employees at Baghdad airport were killed and three others wounded after gunmen attacked the minibus taking them to work, said an interior ministry source.* WEAPONS – International experts gathered in Vienna to discuss tightening restrictions on material that could be used for nuclear bombs, with Russia and the United States warning of the danger of nuclear terrorism.* QUAKE – A powerful earthquake measuring up to 6.7 on the Richter scale hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island, causing no damage but spreading panic among people still traumatised by earlier disasters.- Nampa-AFP