Islamabad - Gunmen on Thursday ambushed a car carrying an Iranian diplomat in north-western Pakistan and kidnapped the envoy after killing his guard, officials and media reports said.

Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, a commercial attache, was seized when he was travelling to the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, the capital of the troubled North West Frontier Province.

New Delhi, Nov. 13 : Visiting Sri Lankan President Mahindra Rajapakse today said that there was no question of ordering a cease-fire against the rebel Liberation Tigers for Tamil Ealam (LTTE), and added that his government would take all necessary steps to protect Tamils in Sri Lanka.

"Tamilians are our people; we have been taking care of them and we will take care," Rajapakse said.

Rajpakse told reporters in Delhi: "Since the last twenty years, we are witnessing this ceasefire. We will not allow terrorism to continue."

Washington, Nov 13 : Former James Bond Roger Moore has blasted the latest instalments of the superspy franchise, insisting that they are ‘too violent’.

The veteran British actor, who played 007 in seven films during the 1970s and 80s, says that he isn’t a huge fan of new Bond films as they are too violent.

He is disappointed at the level of brutality featured in modern day Bond films.

London, Nov 13 : England fast bowler Stuart Broad, who was struggling with a sore knee, has reportedly recovered in time and will feature alongside Jimmy Anderson, Steve Harmison and Andrew Flintoff in the English pace attack in the series against India.

Speaking ahead of the first of the seven-match series, skipper Kevin Pietersen said: "I think our bowling has been pretty special. I think that''s been our strength against South Africa. Certainly since Harmison and Flintoff have come back into the team, they''ve excelled."

London, Nov 13 : An Israeli soldier has been jailed for three weeks because he yawned during an official ceremony.

The soldier, who has not been identified, yawned loudly during a memorial event last week for the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The commander of the Ramat David Israel Air Force base was delivering a speech at the time.

Speaking on Israeli public radio, the soldier’s mother said her son had yawned without covering his mouth, The Telegraph reported.

She added that the commander spotted him, halted his speech and later ordered he be punished for his disrespect.

London, November 13 : Madonna has revealed that she thinks she must have been a ‘Japanese warrioress’ in her previous birth.

The ‘Material’ hit maker, who is fighting for the custody of her three children in a bitter divorce battle with estranged hubby Guy Ritchie, said that she had always been a fighter and thus, traces herself to a ‘Samurai’ past.

“I must have been Japanese in another life. I’m pretty sure I was a warrioress,” the Sun quoted her as saying on a TV show.

“I can’t explain it, I just know. I’m good at fighting — fighting with a big sword,” she added.