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Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) has informed that it has clinched agreements with two UK-based companies and a memorandum of understanding with a Swiss company for business expansion at the Al Ain Aerospace Cluster.

The sources close to the company said that the agreement between Adac and the UK-based Beagle Aerospace has been signed for warehousing of aircraft components at Al Ain. The company's proposals include the commissioning of a specialist composite repair facility within the cluster.

Mumbai, June 18 : Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, who has been accused of raping his maid at his residence on Saturday, was on Thursday remanded to judicial custody till July 2 by a local Mumbai court.

The actor is not entitled to apply for bail. This order from the Andheri court comes after he was earlier remanded in police custody for three days.

The Public prosecution had earlier said they would seek extension of the actor''s custody adding there was enough evidence to prove the actor guilty.

Earlier, medical reports had confirmed that Ahuja''s maid was indeed raped. He will undergo DNA test.

Los Angeles - Pop star Cher, 63, has broken her silence over her daughter's "difficult journey" to change her sex.

In a statement issued late Wednesday to US magazine People, Cher expressed her support on Chastity (Chaz) Bono's decision to become a man.

Chastity (Chaz) Bono, who is a lesbian, began undergoing sex change operations shortly after her 40th birthday on March 4. She has been active in the gay and lesbian movement for many years.

Hamburg - Italy's Pietro Caucchioli and Ricardo Serrano of Spain have been suspended by their teams after the International Cycling Union (UCI) named them among five cyclists who had suspicious data in their biological passports.

The UCI called for disciplinary proceedings to be started against the cyclists and Caucchioli's Lampre team and Serrano's Equipe Fuji- Servetto have responded by suspending the pair, noting that the suspicious values dated from 2008 before the riders joined their teams.

New York, June 18 : A substantial majority of Americans believe that President Barack Obama has not developed a strategy to deal with the budget deficit, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The poll also found that support for President Obama's plans to overhaul health care, rescue the auto industry and close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, falls well below his job approval ratings.

London, June 18 : To turn the main support base of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan commander Baitullah Mehsud against him, the Mehsud tribesmen, Pakistan has imposed an economic blockade on his mountain stronghold to encourage civilians to flee before a planned ground offensive.

Authorities are also arresting dozens of Mehsud tribesmen and shutting down the businesses of others on the fringes of South Waziristan , according to local officials.

The Times quoted a local intelligence official as saying that the Pakistan Army had blocked all three main roads leading to Mehsud's territory in South Waziristan and allowed only civilians to leave the area.