BBC News with Gaenor Howells

The United States Attorney General Eric Holder has said the Pakistani Taliban were behind the attempted car bombing in Times Square in New York last week. He said the US had evidence that the militant group had recruited a Pakistani-born American citizen Faisal Shahzad. Aleem Maqbool has more.

Now the American Attorney General says there’s proof of Pakistani Taliban involvement, it will ratchet up the pressure on Islamabad. US officials want the Pakistani army to decisively deal with the tribal region of North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan. It is a stronghold of the Taliban, a place where they've also given a safe haven to Al-Qaeda and the area where Faisal Shahzad is reported to have trained. There're small-scaled Pakistani military operations there and frequent US air strikes have killed scores of Taliban operatives in the region, a reason given for the Taliban who’d want to attack America.

Security officials in Pakistan say a man has been arrested at Karachi airport after batteries and an electric circuit were found in his shoes. The suspect who said to be a Pakistani citizen was detained as he tried to board a fight to Oman. Airport security official said he had been checked manually after setting off an alarm.

European Union finance ministers have been meeting in Brussels to discuss measures to prevent the Greek debt crisis from spreading to other countries using the euro currency. They are expected to allow eurozone countries to access an eighty-billion-dollar emergency fund, but a loan guarantee scheme has been opposed by Britain. As our economics editor Stephanie Flanders reports, the financial markets in Asia and in Europe will be paying close attention to the Brussels Talks.