Duty Editor: John Weaver Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Boston bomb probe finds image of possible suspect + Obama attacks senators after gun reforms blocked + Letter to Obama tests positive for poison ricin + Assad says West will pay for 'supporting' Al-Qaeda US-attacks,update-WRAP BOSTON, Massachusetts US investigators say they have found an image of a suspect who may have planted the homemade bombs that killed three people and maimed scores more at the Boston marathon.

At least one person was killed and 20 others wounded on Wednesday when the Pakistani army and Taliban militants exchanged fire near the Afghan border, an official said. The clash erupted in Miranshah, the main town in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district which borders Afghanistan and is infiltrated by Taliban and Al-Qaeda led militants. "Twenty people were injured and one was killed during the clash between the army and militants," Dr Niaz Ahmed, from the main Miranshah hospital, told AFP.

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - A man held in Britain and accused of plotting to set up a militant training camp should not be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges due to concerns over his mental health, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday. The court backed past decisions by its judges and a 2012 ruling by a British court on Haroon Aswat, who Washington accuses of links to al Qaeda.

US intelligence officials were aware that at least one civilian had died in drone strikes in Pakistan during 2011, despite claims to the contrary made by the man now running the Central Intelligence Agency.In June 2011, John Brennan, at the time President Obama’s chief counter terrorism adviser, stated publicly that for ‘almost a year’ no civilian had died in US drone strikes in Pakistan.But leaked US intelligence documents obtained by news agency McClatchy show this was not true.According to national security reporter Jonathan Landry, the intelligence documents, which