Timergara, Apr 25: Eleven children were reportedly killed and three others injured after a bomb explosion in Luqman Banda village in Lower Dir on Saturday. All the deceased were from the same family.

According to the Dawn, the children were playing with the explosive device thinking it was a toy. The device exploded and killed ten children on the spot and injuring four others.

The injured were rushed to DHQ hospital where one of them succumbed to his injuries.

Ramaipur, Apr 25: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday said a `dalit's daughter' should be made the Prime Minister of the country.

Mayawati further said a dalit Prime Minister would ensure the upliftment of the backward and minority communities in the country.

"If you make a dalit''s daughter the Prime Minister, then UP will be famous in the entire world. If the BSP comes to power at the Centre, UP will occupy a special place," Mayawati said at an election rally here.

Chisinau/Moscow - Moldova's opposition used its parliamentary strength Saturday to boycott an attempt by the ruling communists to elect their candidate president, Interfax news agency reported. The blocking tactic came after two weeks of bloody rioting in the capital of the former Soviet republic, after the communists won an April 5 parliamentary election in disputed circumstances.

"The opposition has a golden voice which is worth more than the 60 votes of the communists," an opposition spokesman said.

Tokyo - Japan began checking temperatures of passengers arriving from Mexico Saturday after a swine influenza outbreak killed more than 60 people in Mexico and infected at least eight in the United States. The Japanese government on Saturday began tightening health checks on travellers entering the country through Narita and Kansai airports directly from Mexico or via the United States.

Tehran - Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has not yet been allowed to visit Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi in the Evin jail in northern Tehran, Saberi's lawyer said Saturday. "As far as I am informed, Ebadi and her colleagues have already followed up the case but not yet succeeded to visit her in jail for getting her signature for the mandate," Abdolsamad Khoramshahi told the labour news agency ILNA.

Saberi was sentenced to an eight-year jail term last week on charges of spying for the US government.

Berlin - The German government has demanded that potential Opel investors preserve jobs and factories in Germany, the German daily Bild reported. "Every investor must strengthen Germany," Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said in an interview to be published Sunday. "Anyone who wants to close plants and cut jobs is not a suitable Opel partner," Tiefensee added.