AFGHANISTAN: Protests against the cartoons flared in several parts of Afghanistan where three people died. One man died after he was shot in Mehtarlam, Laghman province, where officials said the crowd had been incited by Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives and had called for the expulsion of Danish troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
Two protesters were shot and killed when police opened fire to disperse a stone-throwing crowd of hundreds outside the main US military base in Afghanistan, at Bagram, north of Kabul, a provincial official said.
In the capital Kabul, hundreds of young men, many wielding sticks, marched through the city and eventually found the Danish embassy which they attacked with stones, smashing several windows.
A crowd of about 200 people pelted the embassy of European Union president Austria in Tehran with fire bombs and stones.
Palestinian demonstrators hurled stones at EU offices in the Gaza Strip and pulled down the EU flag.
A crowd of about 400 demonstrators threw petrol bombs and stones at the Danish embassy in Tehran.
Muslims in the Gulf Arab region intensified their boycott of Danish goods.
Protesters in four Indonesian cities demanded that Denmark apologise. Police fired warning shots to disperse 300 hardline Muslims protesting outside the Danish consulate in Indonesia's second city, Surabaya.
The White House condemned acts of violence related to Muslim anger over publication of cartoons. "We condemn acts of violence wherever they occur in relation to the concerns over these cartoons, and that's why we urge all governments to take steps to lower tensions and prevent violence," said spokesman Scott McClellan.
Iran's best-selling newspaper announced it was planning to run images satirising the Holocaust. The right-wing Hamshari daily will launch an international competition to find the most suitable caricatures.
The cartoons have now appeared in newspapers in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Japan, Norway, Malaysia, Australia, the Netherlands and Ireland.