At least two people have been killed and six injured in an attack on a mosque in the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Police say a hand grenade was thrown into the mosque in the centre of the city. At least 100 people were present in the crowded mosque at the time. The motive for the attack is unknown, reports Radio Netherlands.

Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, has announced that it plans to bid for the Olympics. Initial studies suggest that the cost of hosting the 2016 Summer Olympic Games may be $20 billion. Chingiz Huseynzade, chairman of Azerbaijan's National Olympic Committee, told in a July 2007 press conference that a group of economists is working on this issue.

Azerbaijan's government has raised concerns with U.S. officials that militants from Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) are expanding from northern Iraq into the Caucasus and could be setting up cells in Azerbaijan.

It is true that in today's world the strength of arms will not conquer any land or resolve any war. Azerbaijan continues wrongly accusing Armenia and misleading international community on the issue of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

YEREVAN (YERKIR)--"Resumption of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh would cause more damage than in 1992-1994, since collisions would take place between well-equipped armies not guerilla troops," said Vladimir Kazimirov, the former Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.

The last body of a worker was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed multi-story building in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, bringing the death toll to 25, a spokesman for the emergency situations ministry said.

Seven people have died in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, after a high-rise building that was under construction collapsed. Rescue workers are trying to reach up to 10 people believed still trapped under the debris in the basement.

A district court in Baku today sentenced two journalists to jail terms for an article that was deemed to be critical of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Correspondent Rafik Tagi received a three-year prison sentence, while his editor, Samir Sadagatoglu, received a four-year sentence.