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Islamabad, June 18 : In yet another drone strike in less than a week in South Waziristan, at least five people were killed and several others injured when two US Predator aircrafts fired missiles at a suspected Taliban hideout in the Wana region on Thursday.

According to the sources, the drones targeted the hideouts of Taliban commander Mullah Nazir in Shah Alam and Raghzai area near Wana, firing five missiles.

The hideouts were completely destroyed in the missile hit.

Baghdad - Four Iraqis were killed on Thursday as violence continued in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police there said.

Two policemen were fatally shot in two separate gun battles with insurgents in the east of the city, police told the German Press Agency dpa, without giving details.

In a third firefight, in the Yarmuk neighbourhood of western Mosul, Iraqi soldiers killed one insurgent and arrested five others after coming under attack, police said.

Nottingham, June 18 : South African wicket-keeper Mark Boucher has said that his team is not worried about threat that in-form Pakistani paceman Umar Gul possesses in Thurday's Twenty20 World Cup semi-final and conveyed that the Proteas are ready to face their Pakistani counterpart.

"Gul is a very good bowler, especially in the last couple of overs. But we have played against him before and have been successful. It is only a matter of trusting ourselves," Sports 24. co quoted Boucher, as saying.

Frankfurt - Italian essayist Claudio Magris, 70, was picked Thursday as winner of one of Europe's most prestigious annual culture prizes, the 25,000-euro
(34,750-dollar) German Book Trade Peace Prize.

Magris, a professor of German, has written a stream of books about 20th century history, has translated many German authors into Italian and writes newspaper columns.

Lahore, June 18 : As several posts are lying vacant in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) due to officials resigning from their respective posts, the PCB chief Ijaz Butt is reportedly to be placing his favourites in different chairs in the board.

It has been learnt that several lucrative posts such as those of chief selector, media director, marketing director and chief financial officer (CFO) have already been allocated to Butt's people in the board as additional charges.

New Delhi, June 18 : A Chinese woman was caught with high tech devices while taking an exam for a driver's licence, when a receiver fell out of her mouth due to nervousness.

Huang, from Quanzhou, Fujian province, was found by a test supervisor to be writing on her test paper without looking up at the computer screen to see the questions.

Suspicious, the supervisor approached the woman.

Finding the supervisor near her, the woman became nervous, and the receiver fell out of her mouth.

According to the China Daily, she also had a tiny camera hooked up to her shirt, along with a walkie-talkie and receiver.