WASHINGTON - Four men have been convicted for planting bombs outside synagogues and plotting missile attacks on military planes in New York, a media report said.

JAMMU - Hurriyat Conference leader Masarat Alam is likely to be shifted to Jammu where several other separatist leaders are lodged, an official said Tuesday, a day after the general secretary of the Geelani-led hardline group was arrested in Srinagar.

WASHINGTON - The United States has admitted that one of the wives of David Headley twice warned the US embassy in Pakistan about her husband's terrorist links, but denied the warnings were ignored. It said there was no "specific information" in those warnings.

RAIPUR - Dozens of armed Maoists set afire vehicles engaged in road construction in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region Monday, officials said.

SRINAGAR - The standoff between an injured guerrilla hiding in a mosque in Kashmir's Bandipora district and the security forces continued Monday evening as a village cleric and elders failed to persuade the militant to surrender.