Obama aide delays trip to China, India - W.House

President Barack Obama's top national security adviser delayed a planned trip to China and India last week to help Obama deal with Libya and a decision on U.S. troops in Iraq, the White House said on Friday.

White House national security adviser Tom Donilon had been scheduled to meet with Chinese leaders on Oct. 21 in Beijing, including with Vice Premier Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo, and then travel on to India.

But the Oct. 20 killing of Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi, and Obama's decision, announced the next day, to pull all remaining U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year, kept Donilon in Washington, said White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor.

Vietor said the visits, which would have come ahead of an important Asia-Pacific summit being hosted by Obama in Hawaii next month, will be rescheduled for a later date.

The White House gave no indication of what Donilon would have discussed on the trip, which comes as Obama is seeking to reinforce his administration's focus on Asia despite the demands on its attention of the Arab Spring.

But it would have taken place at a delicate time, after the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate this month approved a bill to punish China for keeping its yuan currency artificially cheap against the dollar, which U.S. lawmakers say boosts Chinese exports at the cost of scarce U.S. jobs.

British police arrested Wife of Stockholm suicide bomber in Britain

British police said they had arrested the wife of a man who carried out a suicide bombing in Sweden in December on suspicion of carrying out preparatory acts for a terrorist attack.

Scotland Yard confirmed they detained Mona Thwany, the wife of Taymour Abdelwahab, on Tuesday in the southern English city of Luton.

"At 6:15am Tuesday morning, counter-terrorism officers raided a residential address in Luton, Bedfordshire," a Metropolitan Police spokesman said Monday.

"A 28-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of the preparation of terrorist acts. She has been bailed until mid-November."

Abdelwahab, a 29-year-old whose family fled from Iraq to Sweden in 1991, blew up himself and his car in an empty side-street off of Stockholm's busiest pedestrian thoroughfare, injuring two people.

Police believe the bomb may have gone off prematurely, shortly after Abdelwahab got out of the car strapped with three other devices.

Before the botched December 11 mission, Abdelwahab had lived with his wife and three children in Luton, north of London, where he had graduated with a degree in sports therapy seven years earlier.

Shortly after the attack, beauty stylist wife Thwany said she was "devastated" and had no idea what her husband had planned.

At the time, Swedish officials said they believed Abdelwahab hatched the plan alone, but had support from others.