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AFP - Europe's main stock markets climbed on Friday, with London striking a 12-month high, as investor

Twin bomb blasts at a crowded supermarket killed at least 15 people and injured more than 60 in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar late on Saturday, police said.The explosions took place in the Khyber Super Market, which is surrounded by residential flats for students, shops, a fruit juices kiosk and a hotel."At least 15 people were killed and more than 60 injured in the blasts," senior local police official Ijaz Khan told AFP, saying the blasts were just four minutes apart.

Scenes of panic reminiscent of 9/11 followed the two explosions at the Boston Marathon as police ordered marathoners and pedestrians to run from the scene and others looked down on the carnage of dismembered bodies from surrounding buildings. Sandra Sukstorf, an Assistant Judge Advocate General with the Canadian Forces, was in a hotel room overlooking the finish line and tried to evacuate after the blasts but was ordered back inside, where she watched the triage response and the removal of bodies.

The southern Indian city of Hyderabad has been hit by twin bomb blasts in a bus station and a cinema, the BBC reports.

Twin bomb blasts rocked a sports centre in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Monday, killing one person and wounding at least eight people, security and medical officials said.The explosions came within around 10 minutes of each other in a residential district of the city, which is to host part of the 20th Gulf Football Championship due to kick off next month.Residents said the blasts were heard more than a kilometre (more than half a mile) away.

Twin blasts rocked northern Moscow on Friday in an attack that left no casualties but appeared part of a campaign against targets linked to the powerful Federal Security Service (FSB).The two bombs -- one left on top of an outdoor garage and the other left in a metal garbage container -- went off outside a building housing FSB employees and their families, police sources told Russian news agencies."The blasts went off one after the other," Interfax quoted a police spokesman as saying. "Each bomb had the blast equivalent of about 150 grammes of TNT."