Islamabad - A suspected US missile strike killed 12 Taliban militants Wednesday in Pakistan's restive tribal region, while suspected rebels ambushed a police patrol and killed five law enforcers in the neighbouring North Western frontier Province, officials said.
Two missiles believed to have been fired by a US drone hit a compound in Khadezai village of the Orakzai Agency, one of seven semi-autonomous tribal districts known to serve as sanctuaries for al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels.
Wellington - A seriously injured hiker spent two days dragging himself 3 kilometres down a New Zealand glacier with a suspected broken ankle and wrist after falling down a cliff in the Southern Alps, news reports said Wednesday.
Matthews Briggs, 33, had lain injured for a week hoping that friends would raise the alarm and searchers would find him. But he eventually set off for a mountaineers' hut, thinking: "If I don't get out of here, I'm going to die here," the Dominion Post reported.
Baghdad - At least nine people were killed and 29 injured in two separate blasts in the northern Iraqi province of Mosul, police said Tuesday.
Seven people died when a man drove a truck laden with explosives towards a police station in the northern city of Mosul, police told dpa, the German news agency.
The explosion, which also left 25 people injured - including nine policemen, took place in the district of al-Mahata, south of Mosul.
San Francisco - The family involved in the murder-suicide that shook California's Silicon Valley on Monday were recent immigrants from India, local media reports said Tuesday.
Six people, including the gunman, died in the horrific incident, but police declined to give any identifying details about the family until their relatives had been informed.
The San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News reported that the gunman and his six victims were all from India - only one survived, his wife.
San Francisco - A California jury has awarded 8.6 million dollars to a motorbike rider who was severely injured when he crashed into a wild pig that was crossing a highway.
According to the Monterey County Herald, the jury agreed with lawyers for Adam Rogers, who argued that the state of California was responsible for the crash because it took no steps to mitigate the problem even though it knew that wild boars were crossing the road to eat newly planted vegetation on its verges.
Islamabad - A suspected US missile strike killed 12 Taliban militants Wednesday in Pakistan's restive tribal region, while suspected rebels ambushed a police patrol and killed five law enforcers in the neighbouring North Western frontier Province, officials said.
Wellington - A seriously injured hiker spent two days dragging himself 3 kilometres down a New Zealand glacier with a suspected broken ankle and wrist after falling down a cliff in the Southern Alps, news reports said Wednesday.
Warsaw - Four people die
Baghdad - At least nine people were killed and 29 injured in two separate blasts in the northern Iraqi province of Mosul, police said Tuesday.
San Francisco - The family involved in the murder-suicide that shook California's Silicon Valley on Monday were recent immigrants from India, local media reports said Tuesday.
San Francisco - A California jury has awarded 8.6 million dollars to a motorbike rider who was severely injured when he crashed into a wild pig that was crossing a highway.
