India and China have reached a historic agreement to resume border trade through the strategic Nathu-La Pass from July 6 after 44 years of its closure.

The new low-cost carrier, IndiGo, which placed India's biggest orders for 100 Airbus aircraft at the Paris Air Show last year, will start operations in July-August with its own aeroplanes.

The people entered the helicopters and forced an airlift to Muzaffarabad and Abbottabad

Another trough in Bay of Bengal

Second day's play may be rained out

Food packets have been distributed to 5,000 persons affected by rains.

As soon as the centre opened for distribution, people rushed to get the doles and in the ensuing stampede, six were killed and 10 injured.

Flood situation in TN, Karnataka, West Bengal grim

Central America: Hurricane Stan kills 59

Officials estimated at least 90 per cent of surrounding Jefferson County residents had heeded warnings that a storm surge could submerge swaths of the low-lying county - including the seawall-and-levee-protected city of Port Arthur, near Sabine Pass.

Mumbai has had heavy rains since September 9 and more showers are predicted on Monday.

Death toll in Maha is 891

At least four Cambodians, including two children, died after eating the meat from a giant turtle. Dozens were hospitalised.

The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at about 7:50 pm west southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City, according to the US Geological Survey Web site.

A coordinated string of four bomb attacks within seven minutes killed at least 18 people and wounded 39 in northern Iraq on Tuesday, while a Baghdad car bomb injured 28, officials said.

Chelsea, 11 points clear with only 18 left to play for, will seal their first league title since 1955 if they beat the champions on Wednesday.

The analysis suggests that cities in southern India might have experienced eastward horizontal movement of up to 10 mm after the quake.

Graphologists have studied the handwritings of politicians, monarchs and philosophers in documents exhibited for the first time by The National Archives in Kew, southwest London.

Police have bust a major illegal emigration racket by capturing a snakehead, or human smuggler, taking people out of China.

Police in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, arrested Song Chenglin from northeast China's Harbin city.

The Olympic flame reached the Acropolis on Thursday after an unprecedented journey across five continents.

A nephew of top Al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was among 11 people arrested in Karachi Sunday.

The Chinese number one beat France's 31st seed Emilie Loit and set up a clash with Italy's Tathiana Garbin, who stunned Justine Henin-Hardenne.