Falun, Sweden - Claudia Nystad and Axel Teichmann won the prologue races for Germany at the cross-country skiing World Cup finals on Friday.

Nystad won the women's freestyle race over 2.5 kilometres in 7 minutes 12.5 seconds from Sweden's Charlotte Kalla (2.7 seconds behind) and two-time world champion Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland (3.0 seconds).

Islamabad, Mar 20 : Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials have said on Friday that probe into the Mumbai terror attacks continues in the country and the agency had found out some more evidence on the carnage.

Well-placed sources of FIA special team told Geo news that four detained perpetrators of Mumbai mayhem would remain under investigation till preparation of case challan in the case.

Sources said the investigations were still on despite the completion of physical remand, The News reported.

Helsinki - Citing lower demand for air travel, Finnish flag carrier Finnair on Friday said it planned to lay-off staff in its on the technical services division to save costs.

The lay-offs were to last from two weeks to three months, the carrier said, adding it hoped to make savings of 7 million euros (9.4 million dollars) on the move.

The division has some 1,600 employees, and statutory consultative negotiations with unions have begun.

London - A 21-year-old British soldier shot dead by terrorists in Northern Ireland was given an emotional farewell by his family and army superiors in London Friday.

Patrick Azimkar was one of two British soldiers mowed down with more than 60 shots outside the British Army's Massereene barracks near Belfast on March 7.

Vilnius - Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius welcomed a European Union decision Friday to allocate 175 million euros (240 million dollars) towards laying an undersea "power link" from Sweden to either to Lithuania or Latvia.

"The decision is most welcome as it not only enables us to build an interconnection with Sweden which is important for all Lithuanian energy consumers but also testifies to the feeling of solidarity that the European Union showed again," Kubilius said.

The forthcoming Palm Pre and Web OS might just bring Palm some kind of a turnaround of fortunes, especially after the struggling company reported a 72 percent plunge in the smartphone revenue in the most recent quarter!

The Sunnyvale, California-based company reportedly generated $77.5 million in revenue, after a 42 plunge in the total sales of its smartphone devices to 482,000 units. The company's total revenue figures of $90.6 million also fell short of analysts' expectations of $105 million.