Boy started fires

LOS ANGELES – A boy playing with matches allegedly started one of the deadly fires that recently devastated southern California, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing officials with the sheriff’s department.

Al Qaeda behind attack * ISLAMABAD – Pakistani police said that Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network and the Taliban are likely linked to a suicide attack near President Pervez Musharraf’s army office that killed seven people. Bomb kills 8 * TOLYATTI – A bomb ripped through a bus at rush hour in the southern Russian city of Tolyatti, killing eight people and wounding 50, prosecutors said.Turkey accuses Iraq * ANKARA – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused a top Iraqi Kurd leader of ‘harbouring’ terrorists and said his cabinet would discuss economic sanctions against Iraqi Kurdistan.Earthquake hits San Francisco * SAN FRANCISCO – A 5,6 magnitude earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay region late on Tuesday giving a new reminder of its vulnerability to a much-forecast ‘Big One’.NKorea cooperating * BEIJING – International efforts to halt North Korea’s nuclear drive are going well, US envoy Christopher Hill said, a day before the nation is to start disabling its atomic facilities for the first time.Nampa-AFPBomb kills 8 * TOLYATTI – A bomb ripped through a bus at rush hour in the southern Russian city of Tolyatti, killing eight people and wounding 50, prosecutors said.Turkey accuses Iraq * ANKARA – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused a top Iraqi Kurd leader of ‘harbouring’ terrorists and said his cabinet would discuss economic sanctions against Iraqi Kurdistan.Earthquake hits San Francisco * SAN FRANCISCO – A 5,6 magnitude earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay region late on Tuesday giving a new reminder of its vulnerability to a much-forecast ‘Big One’.NKorea cooperating * BEIJING – International efforts to halt North Korea’s nuclear drive are going well, US envoy Christopher Hill said, a day before the nation is to start disabling its atomic facilities for the first time.Nampa-AFP