Kolkata, Feb 10 : A major fire broke out in an oil mill in Kolkata this morning.
The fire broke out in the shed housing the warehouse and office of the mustard oil mill located at Posta Bazaar, one of the most congested areas of the city.
Fire brigade officials said that it took more than four hours to control the raging fire.
"We are trying our best to save the adjacent building and property. We also rescued two persons from the top floor of the building," said Bibhas Guha, Divisional Fire Officer, Kolkata.
The Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital is struggling to deal with emergency services after resident doctors went on a strike.
The resident doctors are calling for the arrest of 25 people following an alleged assault on five of their colleagues by relatives of a patient on Monday night.
The patient, who was undergoing treatment in the Central Mumbai hospital for the last 15 days, died in the hospital and the body was not handed over to the relatives.
London, February 10: A septuagenarian roller skater in England has been charged with being a danger to the public, after he was accused of skating in a restricted area.
Geoff Dornan, 71, who appeared before North Sefton magistrates' court in Merseyside, will now have to prove that he is not a hazard to pedestrians where he skates in the seaside town of Southport.
St Louis, Senegal - Thioubalo rattles away at the door. Behind it come the sounds of running water and noisy children.
The 12-year-old shouts something, and you don't have to be fluent in Wolof - most common language in the West African state of Senegal - to realise that Thioubalo finally wants his turn under the shower at the Maison d'Ecoute in the heart of the old town of St Louis.
He needs to get cleaned up. His feet and his straggly arms are dust-caked, his worn-out clothes dirty.
The door opens and 12-year-old Thierno and seven-year-old Amadou emerge and jump down the steps past Thioubalo, who quickly nips into the shower. The two boys' clothes are hanging out to dry in the courtyard.
Rome - An ambulance, lights flashing, stops briefly as several protestors attempt to block its path. Then, under sweeping rain, the vehicle moves forward into the night.
The footage, aired repeatedly on Italian television, marked the journey of Eluana Englaro to an old person's home in the north- eastern city of Udine.
Also screened are photographs - dating from the late 1980s or early 1990s - of a tanned young woman, her smiling face framed by the long dark curls of her hair.
Eluana has spent the last 17 years in a vegetative state following a car accident, and her case is now captivating public attention in Italy.