Athens - Amid a sea of broken glass and charred debris in Athens' high-end shopping district of Kolonaki, dozens of people are gathered outside a jewellery shop whose entrance is filled with flowers and mourning notices.

Unlike many of the neighbouring shops lining this popular pedestrian lane, such as luxury clothing store Raulph Lauren and Parisian leather goods retailer Lancel, rioters left the tiny jewellery shop untouched in their spree of destruction.

London, Dec 9 : Mark Hughes, manager of the Manchester City, is ready to walk out if the club’s Arab owners continue to interfere in team selection and playing tactics.

The Abu Dhabi businessmen have stunned manager Hughes by trying to tell him how to run his side, The Sun reported.

But Sparky made it clear to chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak that he has to be in charge of all team affairs.

The meddling of the Arabg owners centre’s around the playing position of Brazilian Robinho, who has been purchased for 32.5million pounds.

Along with Brazilians Elano and Jo, Robinho has expressed frustration since his shock switch from Real Madrid.

New Delhi - Police killed at least five suspected separatist rebels in India's north-eastern state of Manipur, a news report said Tuesday.

A group of militants in a vehicle opened fire at police on patrol in central Thoubal district late on Monday night, the PTI news agency reported.

Five rebels were killed in the ensuing gunbattle that lasted nearly half an hour, official sources told the PTI. Arms and ammunition were recovered from the scene.

Police said the slain militants belonged to the People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak.

Berlin - Germany is to re-introduce billions of euros in income-tax relief after the nation's highest court ruled Tuesday that Chancellor Angela Merkel's government had unconstitutionally altered a tax exemption.

The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled that tax relief on the cost of travelling from home to work and back must be applied equally to all taxpayers.

In a major and unpopular budget-cutting move, the government had limited the exemption since the start of 2007 to people travelling to worksites 20 kilometres or more from home.

Guinea worm disease has been prevalent in African and Asian populations since antiquity. But according to Jimmy Carter, the disease may be on the verge of being eradicated. The former US president has pioneered a global effort to fight Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease through his work with the Carter Center, a foundation he and his wife, Rosalind, established for fighting disease and promoting human rights.

Hanoi - Vietnamese authorities turned over four sets of remains believed to be of US soldiers killed decades ago, at a repatriation ceremony Tuesday at Hanoi's international airport.

Dao Xuan Kinh, director of Vietnam's Office for Seeking Missing Persons, said they were believed to be of US pilots shot down over the country between 1965 and
1972.

"We found these four sets of remains in four different provinces in northern Vietnam," Kinh said.

The remains were put on a US Air Force aircraft for transport back to the United States and forensic testing.