<span style="color: #222222;">In Somalia, 11 people have been dead and 25 other wounded in a pair of explosions rocked in the capital city Mogadishu.<br />'' <br />'' The al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility of the attacks.<br />'' <br />'' Police chief Gen Bashir Abdi Mohamed told reporters that first car bomb went off near a security checkpoint for the presidential palace and was responsible for nine deaths.<br />'' <br />'' The second car bomb killed the driver and his accomplice near a checkpoint on the road to the heavily fortified airport, he said.<br />''<br />''The airport is home to a number of diplomatic offices. </span>