Scotland’s high court must hear a new appeal by Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Al Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing, an independent review body said on Thursday.

Police were on patrol in Tehran on Thursday on alert for any more violent protests over the introduction of petrol rationing in Iran, the world’s fourth largest oil producer.

A roadside bomb killed two soldiers in Somalia’s chaotic capital Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses said, hours after two aid workers were shot dead in an overnight attack in the north of the country.