Tokyo, Nov. 11 : The North Korean Government has warned Japan that it could order its military forces to stop and board Japanese ships operating in the Sea of Japan or shadow military or civilian aircraft close to its territory if Tokyo steps up its sanctions against Pyongyang.

Hanoi - Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai have destroyed more than one ton of illegally harvested blowfish, a local official said Tuesday.

"We decided to destroy them in order to avoid people selling them in the market," said Tran Trung, the chief of the secretariat of Pho Thanh commune, where the blowfish was destroyed.

Trung said that the fish, which had been frozen for transportation to markets and restaurants, was confiscated from fishermen at the port town of Sa Hung Fishing.

Local authorities had previously destroyed some 450 kilograms of the fish at the same port.

Frankfurt - Borussia Dortmund defender Robert Kovac has been banned for three Bundesliga matches over a post-game outburst at a referee, the German football federation DFB said on Tuesday.

Washington, Nov 11 : US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher has reportedly said that the US has seen a lot of real determination in the new Pakistani government to fight terrorism.

“Pakistanis were focused on how to deal with violent extremism,” the Daily Times quoted Boucher as saying after his last week’s visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He said that Washington’s goal was to work with Pakistan and Afghanistan in dealing with the common threat in their border region.

New York, Nov. 11 : U. S. President-elect Barack Obama will not attend the Bush administration’s global financial summit this weekend in Washington, his senior aide Robert Gibbs said on Monday.

"He''s very interested and thought it was very good to have the meeting. But in a phrase you''ll hear in exceedingly large numbers of times between now and the 20th of January, there''s only one president at a time," Politico quote Gibbs, as saying.

New Delhi, Nov 11 : President Pratibha Patil today said the education system should have the dynamism to be able to constantly adjust to the rapid changes.

Addressing at the First National Education Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of eminent freedom fighter and educationalist Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Patil said that the real challenge before education system is to create a human resource that can take advantage of new opportunities and face new challenges.