RANCHI - At least nine Maoist guerrillas were killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Jharkhand's Latehar district early Friday, police said.

SHILLONG - Angry villagers Thursday protested in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district against the killing of a Garo rebel leader in an alleged fake gunfight by security forces.

BHUBANESWAR - A sarpanch (village council chief) in Orissa's Sundergarh district was arrested Thursday for supplying explosives to Maoists, police said.

BAGHDAD - At least 48 people were killed and 121 injured in a car bomb blast in northwestern Baghdad Thursday, an interior ministry official said.

Moscow, Jan 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device Monday at Moscow's Domodedovo airport was hanging around the arrival zone for about 15 minutes before blowing himself up, an investigator said Thursday.