Lawyers for the man who helped assemble bombs used in the 2002 nightclub blasts in Bali say the charges against him are obscure and should be dropped.

A powerful earthquake has jolted Bali, injuring 17 people and causing panic as hundreds of tourists fled violently shaking buildings.

It's a question you've probably often asked yourself, while idly travelling through foreign climes: should I get myself a nice swastika tattoo?

Another round of talks on the road towards a new global deal on climate change wrapped up on Friday, battered by criticism over progress.

Rich and poor nations wrangled over the need for mandatory caps on greenhouse gases and ways to help the most vulnerable adapt to rising temperatures as a United Nations climate conference entered its crucial final week. Delegates and environmentalists said on Monday they were satisfied so far with the progress.

Developing countries led by China squabbled with the West over mandatory emission cuts at the Bali climate-change conference, as activists accused Canada on Saturday of undermining the negotiations by insisting on targets for poor nations. Delegates from nearly 190 nations are attending the December 3 to 14 meeting.

About 190 nations met in Bali on Monday seeking a breakthrough to a new global pact to fight climate change by 2009 to avert droughts, heatwaves and rising seas that will hit the poor hardest. A new treaty is meant to widen the Kyoto Protocol, which binds 36 industrial countries to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 5% below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012.

Two men have been detained for questioning over the suicide bombings at three crowded restaurants on Indonesia's Bali island, police said on Tuesday. Indonesian officials earlier said the near-simultaneous bombings that killed 22 people and apparently were planned by two Malaysians -- still at large.

Powerful bombs ripped through three crowded restaurants on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100 -- the second time terrorists have brought carnage to the tropical paradise in three years. Witnesses reported seeing dismembered bodies at the scene, many of them foreigners.

The monkey temples on the resort island of Bali are a perfect photo opportunity for tourists feeding bananas to man's closest relative, but most visitors are likely unaware they're at risk of contracting a little-known retrovirus recently found to jump from primates to people in Asia.