New York, Sept 29: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s return to home country from his maiden foreign visit after assuming Presidency, after the aircraft which he to board was hit by a delivery truck at the airport.

Zardari was in his hotel at the time of the incident.

The incident delayed Zardari’s return by at least 12 hours, reported the Dawn.

London, Sept 29: With the objective of thwarting any concerted attack form the Taliban or the Al Qaeda forces on the US ahead of the November 4 election, the Pentagon has reportedly ordered stepping up raids on suspected terrorist targets within Pakistan. The move would pressurise Al-Qaeda leaders and distract them from preparing attacks on American targets elsewhere.

“The aim is to disrupt their scope for planning and keep their leaders on the move so that it is more difficult for them to coordinate complicated plots,” The Sunday Telegraph quoted a senior US intelligence official as saying.

Algiers - Three Algerian soldiers and a suspected suicide bomber have been killed in a terrorist attack in the Algerian city of Dellys, about 100 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, the website Everything about Algeria reported Monday.

According to security sources, late Sunday, guards at a military base stopped a car loaded with explosives, killing the driver. But the bomb was then probably set off by accomplices using a remote control device.

Six people were also injured in the explosion.

Vienna - Despite heavy losses, first projections showed the Social Democratic Party was likely to keep the chancellorship as the strongest party in Austria's early parliamentary elections on Sunday.

But the real winners were the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) and the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZOe), which together won around 30 per cent of the votes, according to the preliminary projection by ARGE Wahlen, based on 25 per cent of counted ballots.

Led by Transport Minister Werner Faymann, the Social Democratic Party (SPOe) stood at around 29 per cent, 6 per cent less than in the last elections in 2006.

London - Britain's Conservative Party leader David Cameron launched a strong attack on the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown and its performance in the current economic crisis at his party's conference Sunday.

"We have to ask the question who brought us and our economy to this position? Who was it that spent and spent and borrowed and borrowed and gave us that massive budget deficit?" Cameron asked the Tory conference in Birmingham.

"The answer is our prime minister, the then chancellor, Gordon Brown - and my message to Gordon Brown is this: You have had your boom and your reputation is now bust."

Paris - International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Sunday that his institute could serve as a kind of watchdog for the crisis-stricken world financial market.

In remarks published in the Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche, Strauss-Kahn said the IMF could set the norms and keep watch on the markets.

Democracy demanded that each country must pass its own laws, he said, "but the general rules must apply universally because the financial system has been globalized."

Speaking of the IMF, Strauss-Kahn said: "We are in a position to define and to guarantee compromise and the common interest."