Jakarta - At least seven people were injured when turbulence hit a Boeing 747-400 jetliner belonging to China Airlines on Saturday en route from Taipei to Indonesia's Bali island, an airport official said.

A spokesman for the Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport named Dimyati said the CAL-687 jet carrying 357 people dropped drastically to about 25,000-feet altitude from 35,000 feet, jolting passengers.

Beijing - Engineers on Saturday moved the assembled carrier rocket and Shenzhou VII spacecraft toward a launch pad for China's next manned space mission, which was scheduled to be launched next week, state media reported.

The Shenzhou VII, attached to a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was rolled along a 1,500-metre railway from the assembly plant to the launch pad, the semi-official China News Service said.

The move to the launch pad at the Jiuquan space centre in the north-western province of Gansu began around 1:30 pm (0530 GMT) and would take about two and a half hours, the agency said.

Beijing - A fire killed at least five people and trapped 27 others underground Saturday at a coal mine in north-eastern China's Heilongjiang province, the government said.

Forty-four miners were working underground and 12 escaped after the fire broke out around 3:30 am (1930 GMT Friday) at the Fuhua mine in Hegang city, the State Administration of Work Safety said on its website.

Rescuers had recovered five bodies by Saturday afternoon and were still searching for the other missing miners, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Beijing - A fire trapped 32 people underground Saturday at a coal mine in north-eastern China's Heilongjiang province, the government said.

Forty-four miners were working underground and 12 escaped after the fire broke out around 3:30 am (1930 GMT Friday) at the Fuhua mine in Hegang city, the State Administration of Work Safety said on its website.

The Fuhua coal mine was fully licensed to produce up to 60,000 tons of coal annually, the administration said.

The cause of the accident was under investigation, state media said.

Washington - The United States on Friday condemned violence against Christians in India that has escalated in recent weeks, leaving about 20 dead and thousands homeless.

"We urge all parties to refrain from violence and urge government officials to protect religious freedom throughout India and thus preserve India's longstanding tradition of religious tolerance," Thomas Hanford, ambassador at large for international religious freedom, said in Washington at the annual release of the State Department's International Religious Freedom Report.

New Delhi, Sep 19 : India and China today failed to reach any specific agreements on their disputed boundary issue in the latest round of negotiations, but decided to pursue their goal for a fair and reasonable solution acceptable to both sides.

“Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo and Indian National Security Adviser M K Narayanan headed their delegations for the talks, which were pragmatic, candid and friendly,” a statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry said here.