WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the recently uncovered attempt to destroy cargo planes with parcel bombs, according to a private terrorism watchdog.

ISLAMABAD - At least 93 people were killed and scores wounded in two terrorist attacks on mosques and a plane crash in Pakistan Friday.

ISLAMABAD - At least five people were killed and 36 others injured in a second mosque blast during Friday prayers in northwest Pakistan, officials said.

ISLAMABAD - Another blast took place at a mosque in northwest Pakistan Friday, hours after a suicide bomb attack left at least 60 people dead in a mosque in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a media report said.

KOLKATA - Families of the two people abducted last month from Purulia district of West Bengal Friday refused to believe that Maoists were not involved in the crime, a day after the guerrillas denied they had kidnapped them.