Budapest - Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom met his Slovak counterpart Ivan Gasparovic on Saturday in the latest bid to defuse language and minority rights tensions between their countries.

The meeting of the two men in the Slovak town of Nove Zamky was the latest in a series of diplomatic moves aimed at easing long- standing tensions between the two countries.

Solyom and Gasparovic agreed on the use of dual Hungarian and Slovak place names in textbooks designed for use in ethnic Hungarian schools, a measure approved by the Slovak parliament on Wednesday.

Trondheim, Norway - Magnus Moan claimed his first World Cup season win in Nordic combined skiing on Saturday in front of a Norwegian home crowd.

Placed 20th after the morning jumping portion, Moan proved the strongest in the 10-kilometres cross-country pursuit, clocking 24 minutes 49.6 seconds for his eighth career victory.

Frenchman Jason Lamy Chappuis trailed by seven tenth of a second in second place. Third-placed Anssi Koivuranta of Finland was 2.2 seconds off the pace as the top six finishers were separated by less than five seconds.

Munich - If al-Qaeda terrorists sell their stories for money, the income should be seized to benefit victims' families, according to a petition sent to Germany's parliament.

The news magazine Focus said Saturday the petition was in the name of the 52 members of the German Alliance on Capital Crimes, which represents relatives of victims.

They lost loved ones in the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and other Islamist attacks in Djerba and Bali, as well as in a 1975 attack in Stockholm by the far-left German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction.

Lucknow/New Delhi, Dec 6 : Muslims of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh observed ''Black Day'' on the 16th anniversary of the demolition of Babri mosque.

Some of the members from the community gathered at a local mosque to give vent to their anguish over the demolition, which happened in 1992.

The main dome of the mosque was mast with a black flag and the forecourt reverberated with the feelings of the speakers.

Chennai, Dec 6 : Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag met school children at a function organised on Saturday to felicitate student sportspersons in Chennai.

The lone Indian to make triple century in test cricket Sehwag, bedecked in a traditional Indian dress which was as flamboyant as his strokes on the fields arrived in the school on a horse driven cart.

Scores of school children greeted him, breaking into long rapturous applause.

Recounting his own schooldays, the maverick batsman expressed happiness on meeting them.

Gaza - The Gaza Strip's power plant will shut down morning after consuming a limited shipment of fuel that was allowed into Gaza two days ago, Palestinian official said Saturday.

"The plant will close by early Sunday as the last amount of diesel ran out," said Jamal al-Derdasawi, an official at the station.