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Washington, June 23 : Two subway trains crashed into each other at the height of the evening rush hour on Monday, killing at least six people and injuring several others.

A female driver of one of the trains is among the dead. A six-car train rear-ended the second train, which had stopped on the tracks near the northeast border of Maryland.

A D. C. fire department spokesman said both trains were ripped open and smashed together, forcing rescue workers to cut some people out of what he called a "mass casualty event."

Los Angeles - US singer and actress Jessica Simpson, 28, will tackle the issue of beauty in a new TV reality show.

Los Angeles - Actress Cameron Diaz, 36, is now the proud owner of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The recipient of the 2,386th star set in the concrete of the pavement said she had "the best job in the world."

"It will be cool to be under people's feet," the actress said in front of hundreds of fans on Monday.

Famous friends including Vanilla Sky co-star Tom Cruise, his wife Katie Holmes and director Nick Cassavetes also attended the ceremony.

Singapore - An Australian television journalist who served a jail term in Singapore for drug offences has been released from the city-state's Changi prison Tuesday, a prison spokesman said.

Peter Lloyd, 42, a former correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in India, had been sentenced in December to 10 months in jail after pleading guilty to possessing and consuming drugs.

"He has been released and is no longer in our custody," the prison spokesman said.

Washington, June 23 : A new research claims to confirm a century-old hypothesis that using a tool for just a few minutes can have a lasting effect on how someone perceives the size and position of their body.

In other words, the tool becomes a part of what is known in psychology as our body schema, according to a report published in the June 23rd issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.