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Sydney  - Six passengers and a member of the Qantas Airways Ltd flight crew were injured when "severe turbulence" affected a flight from Hong Kong to Perth, the airline said in a statement Monday.

Flight QF68 encountered turbulence over Borneo when it was four hours into Sunday's flight.

The Airbus A330 is the same type of plane involved in the Air France flight that went down over the Atlantic earlier this month with the expected loss of 228 lives.

Bangkok  - An opposition party candidate won a by-election in Sakorn Nakorn province by a landslide, providing a small political triumph for fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, election officials said Monday.

Anurak Boonson of the Puea Thai Party which is loyal to Thaksin, won 83,348 votes in the Sakorn Nakorn by-election compared with Bhumjaithai Party candidate Pitak Chansri's 47,235 votes, according to an unofficial poll count Monday morning.

Cologne, Germany  - Exercise and weight training after a serious illness such as a heart attack or cancer is often recommended as part of recovery therapy even when the patient is old or not athletic.

Though it can't entirely replace medicine, it can result in the need for smaller dosages.

Hong Kong  - For years the sun has been considered public enemy number one, causing skin damage, premature ageing, skin pigmentations and increasing our risk of skin cancer.

But before you head for the shade this summer, consider this: those nasty rays are needed in the production of vitamin D, and by blocking out the sun, you are risking a deficiency that could leave you open to all sorts of ailments.

Hrithik Roshan is all set to play the role of Amitabh Bachchan in the remake of 90’s super-hit ‘Agneepath’.

It is learnt that Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions is planning to cast Hrithik in the powerful character of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan which till date remember one of his most famous ones.

Hamburg - We humans are not the only creatures who giggle, according to a team of German scientists who spent 10 years tickling baby chimpanzees to see what would happen.

What happened was that the baby chimps grinned and giggled exactly the same way that baby humans grin and giggle when grown-ups say tickle them and say "cootchie-coo".

Every zookeeper and circus animal trainer has always known that chimps smile and laugh. But this is the first time that lab coat-clad researchers have documented the phenomenon as scientific fact.