Sydney - Over 140 Australian reserve soldiers will be deployed to the Solomon Islands to help maintain peace and stability, a Defence Department statement said Saturday.

"During the four-month deployment, the soldiers will carry out street patrols alongside the Australian Federal Police and in support of the RAMSI (Regional Assistance Mission Solomon Islands) participating police forces within Solomon Islands," Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said.

Kabul - Two foreign nationals and an Afghan guard were killed when gunmen opened fire on them in the centre of the capital Kabul on Saturday, police said.

"Two foreigners and one of their Afghan guards were killed by gunmen this morning," said Alishan Ahmadzai, a Kabul police official.

Another police officer at the scene said that the dead foreigners were a woman and a man, while two guards were wounded in the attack.

Taipei - Taiwan's right-wing opposition rallied thousands in Taipei Saturday to protest President Ma Ying-jeou's pro-China policies and the island's economic downturn.

The march, organized by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), criticized Ma's alleged selling out of Taiwan's interests to China and Taiwan's economic downturn.

Ma took office in May after his Chinese Nationalist Party swept back into power in the March 22 presidential elections, ending the DPP's 8-year rule.

London, Oct 25 : English business magnate Sir Richard Branson’s attempt at a transatlantic record may be in jeopardy after “massive seas and very strong gales” swept away a life raft, and ripped the main sail.

Branson, his children Holly, 26, Sam, 23, and Olympic hero Ben Ainslie had set sail from New York on October 22 in an attempt to set a record for the fastest crossing.

The billionaire spoke via satellite from his 99-foot yacht Virgin Money, and revealed that the storms hammering the Atlantic “may have been too much for the boat and we may have pushed it too hard”.

London, Oct 25 : Troubled English singer Amy Winehouse could end up being arrested after she failed to show up for a police investigation into the allegation that she hit a reveller.

The 25-year-old is wanted by cops for questioning after Sherene Flash, 30, claimed the singer punched her in the eye when she asked for a photo at a September ball.

The Rehab singer, however, has earned herself the ire of cops by failing to turn up at London’s West End Central nick on October 22, and for not even calling them to inform that she would not come.

“She needs to show the law some respect,” the Sun quoted a police source as saying.

It was the very first attempt from Indian side to commence a lunar mission, and with the successful launch of Chandrayan I, the nation aims for more. It has been revealed that the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will now work to have a manned lunar mission that can take place by 2015. With the unmanned spacecraft launched, India now becomes one of the six nations to send its spaceship to the moon’s orbit. The other five are U.S., former Soviet Union, European Space Agency, China and Japan.