LAHORE (Pakistan) - BLOOD, broken glass and a pack of playing cards lay on the road near Pakistan's main cricket stadium on Tuesday after gunmen brought terror to the city of Lahore with an attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team.

Pakistan is well used to militant violence but the country's historic cultural centre of Lahore in the east, while it has seen its share of bomb attacks, feels much safer than violence-plagued areas in the northwest, near the Afghan border.

TOKYO - CASH back from the government? Stupid, wasteful and ineffective - and a shameless attempt to woo voters, many Japanese say.

BEIJING - CHINA is cracking down on lavish official tours following leaked revelations of bureaucrats vacationing abroad at public expense.