A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in a vegetable market in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing eight people at dusk as residents broke their daily fast for the holy month of Ramadan, authorities said. Lawyers and former executives have cast fresh doubt on the denials made by Rupert and James Murdoch over Britain's phone hacking scandal, raising the prospect that the media tycoon's son could be recalled for a new grilling by U.K.legislators. The masked man who locked a fake bomb to the neck of an Australian millionaire's teenage daughter did not look like your ordinary violent criminal.The gray-haired attacker wielded a baseball bat but wore beige trousers and a light-colored dress shirt, rolled up at the elbows. Along with demands for money, he left behind an email address that appears to refer to a 45-year-old novel about a ruthless businessman in 19th-century Asia. A Philadelphia man was gunned down hours after a judge upheld felony charges against his ex-girlfriend, who was accused of offering $1,000 on Facebook for someone to kill him.But with the teenager who allegedly took the bait already in custody, investigators said on Tuesday they aren't sure why the man was killed. A Pakistani woman clubbed to death her 12-year-old domestic help for not serving a meal to her dog in Lahore. Libya's rebels said today their war against Moammar Gaddafi's regime had entered a "decisive phase" and that victory was within reach by the end of August. In an ancient stone quarry underneath Jerusalem's Old City, women tottered on stilettos down a dimly lit pa*sage on their way to a very modern ritual: speed-dating. A 16-year-old boy was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for the murder of a retiree attacked when he confronted rioters in London, as judges and prosecutors used tough punishment and name-and-shame tactics against hundreds of alleged participants in the mayhem. The US today acknowledged that its ally Pakistan keeps ties with anti-India terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, but said Washington had "no choice" but to maintain its relations with Islamabad if it has to fight Al Qaeda in the region. Gunmen wearing military uniforms pulled seven people from a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad and then shot and killed them, officials said Tuesday, raising the death toll to 70 in Iraq's deadliest day this year. A woman in Britain handed over her 14-year-old son to the police after watching him on CCTV stealing a chewing gum packet worth one pound.The boy, from Sale town of Manchester, was dragged to the Stretford police station by his mother to confess his crime, the Daily Express reported Seven civilians were killed and eight others wounded on Tuesday in a motorcycle bomb blast at a market in southern Afghanistan, officials said. Over 100 Missing after Boat Sinks in Russia=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s Volga River
