Washington, Dec. 12 : Efforts to salvage a proposed 14 billion dollar rescue plan for the American auto industry collapsed on Thursday as both Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on the timing of deep wage cuts for union workers.

They have effectively killed the legislative plan and threatened America''s carmakers with bankruptcy, the Washington Post reports.

Wiesbaden, Germany - As cars become safer, Germany's road toll this year is set to sink to its lowest level since cars came into widespread use early in the 20th century, statistics Friday showed.

Using data for the year so far, government statisticians estimate 4,800 people will be killed this year in German car accidents.

The German road toll peaked at 21,000 four decades ago in 1970, but even back in the 1930s the toll was higher than today. In 1938, there were 7,354 road deaths, although Germany then did cover a larger territory than now.

New Delhi - Indian Sports Minister Manohar Singh Gill Friday opposed the national cricket squad's tour to Pakistan in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, a news report said.

It was not the right time to play cricket with Pakistan when "people from their soil were indulging in mass murder in India," the Press Trust of India news agency quoted Gill as saying.

The Indian government is yet to clear the cricket team's January 6 to February 19 tour to Pakistan.

"Is it possible for one team to arrive in Mumbai and indulge in mass murder, and have another team go and play cricket in the winter afternoon sun at Lahore, immediately after," Gill said.

Jakarta- Indonesian police seized more than 6 kilograms of heroin and arrested two people in one of the biggest drug hauls in the country this year, police said Friday.

The heroin was seized when police raided a house in the eastern Jakarta suburb of Cipinang on Thursday night, said Brigadier General Harry Montolalu, director of the anti-drugs unit at national police headquarters.