Sydney  - Sydney police on Monday bolstered a squad dedicated to breaking up motorcycle gangs after a Hells Angels member was bludgeoned to death in front of horrified passengers at Sydney airport when rival gangs clashed at a check-in counter.

"This is a new low in the activities of these criminal gangs," New South Wales state Premier Nathan Rees said of Sunday's killing. "Where once they kept these things between themselves, this has now overlapped into the public domain."

Cotabato City, Philippines - Seven people were wounded when an improvised bomb exploded in a southern Philippine city, a local official said Monday.

The bomb exploded Sunday evening on a pedestrian overpass bridge in Kidapawan City in North Cotabato province, 960 kilometres south of Manila, according to Vice Governor Emmanuel Pinol.

All victims who suffered wounds from the explosion are in stable condition.

Pinol said the explosion was powerful and created a hole on the concrete overpass bridge.

Dhaka  - Bangladesh has imposed a ban on travelling abroad for war crimes suspects as part of its process to bring 1971 war criminals to justice, a senior minister said Sunday.

"The trials of the war criminals are in the process, and that's why the government has ordered some people not to leave the country," Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shafique Ahmed said.

The minister mentioned neither the names nor the number of suspects affected.

Cotabato City, Philippines  - A homemade bomb ripped through a passenger bus terminal in a southern Philippine city Sunday, but no one was hurt, police said.

The explosion occurred before dawn at the Husky Bus Terminal in Cotabato City, 960 kilometres south of Manila, according to Senior Superintendent Willie Dangane, city police chief.

Dangane said two buses and a concrete wall were partially damaged by the blast.

"Police investigators are looking into extortion and transport business rivalry as possible motives," he said.

Kuala Lumpur - Four Malaysian girls have filed a police complaint against their stepfather, an unemployed Indonesian, alleging that he raped and sodomized them for four years, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The sisters, aged between 12 and 19, were afraid to tell anyone about the abuse. They finally confided to a female relative on Thursday at a wedding, who then took the girls to the police.

Manila  - Thousands of people marched on Saturday in the Philippine capital to denounce illegal drugs which afflict millions in the country.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and senior government officials led the march along the length of Roxas Boulevard in downtown Manila, which was attended by schoolchildren and government employees.

Organizers of the march hoped to make it to the Guinness World Records bookas the world's first and largest march against illegal drugs.