Three unexploded bombs were found in Bangkok and surrounding suburbs in a matter of hours, one of them in front of a school and one in a shopping mall, police said Thursday.

The house committee on foreign affairs meeting yesterday degenerated into a bitter war of words between Democrat MP Sirichoke Sopha and Puea Thai Party MP Jatuporn Prompan over the Viktor Bout issue.

AYUTTHAYA : It was a heart-breaking scene ... Taew, a one-year-old male long-tailed macaque was caressing the face of the lifeless body of Suea, a two-year-old mixed breed dog.

US authorities have cleared a Thai Airways International aircraft which was subject to a bomb hoax to return to Bangkok after they found no evidence of explosives on board.

Thailand's hopes for third generation mobile phone services face another potential legal obstacle after CAT Telecom's labour union said it will pressure the company to file a lawsuit with the Administrative Court to stop the auction of 3G licences on Sept 20.

The Bank of Thailand (BoT) should not introduce measures to curb foreign direct investment inflow to the Thai capital market, chairman of the Federation of Thai Capital Market Organisations Paibul Narintarangkul said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has assigned Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat and Deputy Interior Minister Thavorn Senniam to visit the far South immediately to look into the slayings of teachers in the violence-plagued region.

Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, former leader of the dissolved Thai Rak Thai Party, on Wednesday denied a report she is forming a new political party with eight other former TRT executives under a five-year ban from politics.

Thai Airways flight TG794 en route from Bangkok to Los Angeles had landed safely following a bomb threat, Surapol Isarakura na Ayutthaya, head of crisis management at Thai Airways International, said on Wednesday.

Corruption plaguing disaster relief projects across the country is costing the state more than 50 million baht, the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission says.

The master of ceremonies at the nightclub was cracking jokes late on Friday, surrounded by hundreds of people eating sushi and dancing with drinks in hand, when a pyrotechnic display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with twigs.

The White House warned of an attempted terrorist attack after an international airline passenger allegedly tried to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit by setting off an explosive device, US media reported on Friday.

Washington - Los Angeles police were investigating the death of US actress Brittany Murphy at age 32, and the coroner plans to carry out an autopsy, People magazine reported Sunday.

The leaders of the world's biggest economies reached what even its authors described as an insufficient deal aimed at slowing global warming after 11th-hour discussions in Copenhagen early Saturday.

US district court has delayed until March the sentence against a Los Angeles film-making couple convicted of bribing ex-Thai tourism chief to run a Bangkok film festival.

A UK government will now be urgently warning all governments who may have bought devices such as the ADE651 and GT200 as they are "wholly ineffective" at detecting bombs and explosives, the British Foreign Office has told the BBC.

US President Barack Obama has sent a birthday message to HM the King.

Washington - A strong earthquake hit deep under the Pacific Ocean offshore northern California Saturday afternoon, interrupting power, shaking homes and cracking ceilings but causing no reported human injuries.

The UK government has announced a ban on the export to Iraq and Afghanistan of some so-called "bomb detectors," which are also used in the deep south provinces of Thailand.

Hong Kong - The office of Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang said Sunday it was investigating pictures on Facebook of teenagers goofing around in Hong Kong's high-security Government House.