Bangkok - Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Wednesday endorsed the election of former opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as the country's 27th prime minister.

Abhisit, 44, leader of the Democrat Party which has been in the opposition since 2001, won the premiership Monday by a 235-198 vote in the lower house of parliament.

His selection was not official until it was endorsed by the king, who is head of state under Thailand's constitutional monarchy.

Abhisit said he would name his cabinet on Thursday, comprising ministers from a five-party coalition government.

Beijing - China has sentenced to death two men convicted of a terrorist attack on police officers in August in the restive central Asian region of Xinjiang, state media said on Wednesday.

The Intermediate People's Court in Xinjiang's Kashgar district sentenced the two men after finding them guilty of "intentional homicide and illegally producing guns, ammunition and explosives," the government's Xinhua news agency quoted court officials as saying.

The attack on August 4 in Kashgar, China's westernmost city, killed 17 paramilitary police and left 15 injured, the government said earlier.

London, Dec 17 : Scottish-American television host Craig Ferguson got a feel of American glamour model Carmen Electra's boobs after she asked him to help her with her dress.

Kabul - An official in eastern Afghanistan said Wednesday three civilians were killed and two others were wounded when their house was attacked by US soldiers.

A man, his wife and 15-year-old son were killed in a coalition force raid in Khost, the capital of the province of the same name, a senior provincial official, who declined to be named, said.

He said two other civilians, a woman and a child, were wounded by "US soldiers firing." The official said the coalition forces did not inform the Afghan security forces of their operation in advance.

London, Dec 17 : Rumours are rife that Aussie singer Dannii Minogue, 37, may be sacked and replaced by English singer Robbie Williams as an X Factor judge.

Simon Cowell, one of the show's bosses, is said to be looking forward to forming his dream team with Cheryl Cole, Louis Walsh, and Williams so that the panel gets more pop star quality.

"It looks like Simon has decided on his dream line-up and is determined that's what he will get," the Daily Star quoted a source as saying.

"He's used to getting his own way so he'll be going all out to get Cheryl. Getting Robbie would also be an amazing coup - he's a megastar," the source added.

Lahore, Dec. 17 : The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has detained several people for being involved in a racket to transfer billions of rupees from Karachi to the North West Frontier Province.

After arresting the directors of Khanani and Kalia International (KKI) last month, the FIA on Tuesday detained another market leader Mehboob Moti, Director of the Al-Sahara Exchange Company, in Karachi.

This was not the first time that Mehboob Moti was summoned by the FIA authorities as earlier he had been asked to appear on a few occasions in connection with an enquiry pending with the FIA.