New Delhi - India has not received a reply from Pakistan on its dossier on Mumbai terrorist attacks, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said Saturday.

"We will react to the reply when we receive it. We have not yet received it," Sharma was quoted as saying by IANS news agency.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had said on Friday that the country's premier spying agency had shared the findings of its investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and this had been passed on to India.

Gaza - Eight Palestinians were killed Saturday when an Israeli tank shell landed on a house in the Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics said.

The eight were apparently members of one family.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment but a spokesman said the incident, which took place in the town of Jabalia near Gaza City, was being looked into.

The tank shell landed shortly after Palestinian militants fired three rockets at the Israeli town of Ashkelon, lightly injuring one person.

Riyadh - The Sirius Star supertanker, released by pirates after being seized in mid-November, has left Somali coastal waters, a statement by Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Nuami said Saturday.

All 25 crew were said to be well. The pirates left Friday, with some reports saying they received three million dollars. However, the minister's statement made no reference to any ransom being paid.

The 330-metre-long supertanker, carrying 100 million dollars-worth of crude oil, had been seized some 830 kilometres off the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa.

Bratislava - Slovakia has gas for some 15 days owing to natural gas supplies from European gas firms, officials said Saturday as a shutdown of Russian gas deliveries via Ukraine continued for the fourth day.

A Slovak Economy Ministry spokesman said that the country boosted its supplies by some 7.2 million cubic metres from reserves of Gaz de France and the German firm E. ON Ruhrgas.

Slovakia is fully dependent on Russian gas arriving via Ukraine.

Taipei - Taiwan will take a giant step in its anti-smoking campaign Sunday by starting to ban indoor smoking across the island, the Department of Health (DPH) said Saturday.

Under the new rule, all offices and indoor facilities like department stores, restaurants, cafes, airports and railway station will ban smoking.

Smoking will also be banned in indoor working environments where three or more people work together.

People who violate the rule by lighting up in these places will face a 2,000-10,000 Taiwan dollar (60-100 US dollar) fine.

London, Jan 10 : Ace Egnland footballer David Beckham, who is at present on a loan to AC Milan, has insisted that he will return to LA Galaxy at the end of his two-month loan.

The midfielder is desperate to cling on to his England place, and dismissed new claims that he is set to make the move to the Italian giants permanently, The Sun reported.

Former LA Galaxy general manager Alexi Lalas, who signed Becks for the MLS, reckoned that was Beckham's plan.