One person was killed and 16 injured Tuesday when a bomb ripped through a crowded market in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati, police said.

The commander of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on a Pakistani police academy and said the group was planning a terrorist attack on the White House that would "amaze" the world.

Northern Ireland police on Tuesday reported a string of bomb scares and car-jackings in Belfast overnight, blamed by politicians on dissident republicans linked to the killings of two soldiers and a policeman.

Thirty Taliban-linked militants were killed in a police operation in southern Afghanistan and three others died in an explosion during a bomb training session, authorities said Tuesday.

Police have arrested nine people and revoked the license of a livestock market owner in a case involving pork tainted with a chemical that made 70 people sick in southern China's biggest city, an official said Tuesday.

Some 25,000 French and German police — and perhaps as many protesters — are taking up positions around three cities on both sides of the Rhine before a NATO summit involving President Barack Obama and 25 other leaders.

The commander of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on a Pakistani police academy and said the group was planning a terrorist attack on the U.S. capital.

A suicide truck bombing on a security post in Iraq's restive northern city of Mosul on Tuesday killed at least seven people, in an attack bearing the hallmark of Al-Qaeda, police said.

The top Pakistani Taliban commander said Tuesday that his group had carried out the deadly assault on a police academy in eastern Pakistan, and he vowed to launch an attack on the U.S. capital.

A suicide truck bombing on a security post in the centre of Iraq's restive northern city of Mosul on Tuesday killed at least seven people, four of them police, a police officer said.