BBC News with David Austin

On the first day of a visit of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai to India, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said they've agreed a strategic

partnership

between the two countries. Mr Singh said his discussions with Mr Karzai were another example of the strong and broad-based partnership between India and Afghanistan. Our South Asia editor Shahzeb Jillani reports.

The strategic partnership signed by India and Afghanistan is being seen as a major step in deepening their friendly ties.

India is already one of Afghanistan's biggest donors, investing in roads, hospitals and energy projects. But under the new partnership, it's believed India would take on a greater role in helping train the Afghan national police.

This latest security dimension to their ties is unlikely to go well in Islamabad, which is deeply suspicious of Delhi's growing presence in Afghanistan.

The Islamic militant group al-Shabab says it carried out a

suicide

bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu, which killed at least 70 people and injured 90 more. It's the deadliest single attack in the group's five-year history and one of the worst seen in Somalia in 20 years of civil war. A truck packed with explosives blew up near the Ministry of Higher Education, close to the centre of Mogadishu.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has expressed anger at the news that the Tibetan

spiritual