Islamabad  - A suspected US missile strike Thursday killed at least eight people and wounded six others in Pakistan's restive tribal region along the Afghan border, as the country's leaders reiterated that the frontiers would be defended "at all costs."

Two missiles targeted an Islamic seminary, Sirajul Uloom, in Dandai Darpakhel village, located some 3 kilometres from Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal district, at around 
2:30 am (2030 GMT), security officials and residents said.

Washington, Oct 23: Boxers will now be able to assess the fighting ability of their opponents - by just looking at their faces, at least that''s what scientists at University of California suggest.

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara has found that people can determine with uncanny accuracy the fighting ability of men around them by honing in on their upper body strength, by just looking at their faces.

"Assessing fighting ability was important for our ancestors, and the characteristic that the mind implicitly equates with fighting ability is upper body strength," said Aaron Sell, a postdoctoral fellow at UCSB''s Center for Evolutionary Psychology and the paper''s lead author.

Kabul - Three soldiers of the US-led coalition were killed in a roadside bomb attack in western Afghanistan, while dozens of militants were killed in clashes between Afghan and international forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Thursday.

The three soldiers were killed and one other was wounded when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb blast in the western region on Wednesday night, the US military said in a statement.

The statement did not disclose the nationalities of the victims. Most of the soldiers serving under coalition command are from the US.

In another incident in the southern province of Uruzgan, Afghan and coalition forces battled with a group of Taliban militants in Deh Rawood district on Tuesday.

Finnish giant Nokia has made announcement about the launching of its latest sleek looking, compact dual slider N series phone, named ‘N85’ in the Indian market.

With an aim to provide ultimate gaming experience together with feature-rich experience, the newly launched handset comes with 15try-and-buy mobile N-Gage games plus a voucher for one full game license.

Beijing - Can China save the world from the current financial crisis? To give the answer right away: no.

However, the nation with its more than 1 billion people and its strong economic growth may be able to offset at least some of the effects of the global financial meltdown.

"At the moment China can only save itself and thus be a certain stabilizing factor in Asia," said Joerg Wuttke, president of the European Chamber of Commerce in China.

Kampala - At least 20 people died instantly and an unknown number was rushed to hospitals after a bus with failed brakes rammed into a column of 15 commuter vehicles in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, press reports said Thursday.

Brakes in the overcrowded bus entering Kampala from upcountry failed Wednesday night as it was ascending an road escarpment, the Kampala-based Central Broadcasting Service (CBS) radio station reported.

The bus rolled down the road, sweeping aside 15 commuter taxis and several other vehicles. The number of fatalities is believed to be much higher than 20, CBS said.