London, Nov 11 : English middle order batsman Paul Collingwood has insisted that England has the firepower to crush India — and put down a marker for next summer’s Ashes.

Collignwood believes the pace attack of Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison will be crucial against India over the next six weeks, The Sun reported.

The Durham all-rounder said: “Apart from the Allen Stanford match, we’ve had two successful months under Kevin Pietersen’s captaincy. Our seam attack, firing on all cylinders, is very hard to beat. And the balance in our side is there now, just look at the team-sheet.”

Islamabad - At least 13 Islamic militants were killed in clashes with government troops in north-west Pakistan while Taliban gunmen seized a convoy of trucks carrying military vehicles and supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, security officials said Tuesday.

Dozens of masked militants blocked a highway Monday in the Khyber tribal area, which lies on the Afghan border, and hijacked a dozen trucks ferrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan.

One of the trucks was carrying two armoured Humvees, which militants were later seen driving in the district's Jamrud area, a local security official said.

Vilnius- Official data released by Statistics Lithuania Tuesday showed that inflation fell in October to 10.5 per cent year- on-year from 11.0 per cent in September, despite a 1.0 per cent rise in prices for consumer goods and services from September to October.

Violeta Klyviene, senior Baltic analyst with Danske Bank, said a slightly larger fall had been expected in Lithuania, the largest of the three Baltic states.

Canary Islands - A would-be immigrant who had come from Africa died Tuesday at a hospital on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife, raising the death toll to three on a boat which had carried a total of 123 migrants, health officials said.

The boat arrived on the Canary Island of El Hierro on Monday.

London/Paris - Commemorations to mark Armistice Day, the day the guns fell silent at the end of World War I 90 years ago, were held in Britain and France Tuesday.

In London, Prime Minister Gordon Brown attended the solemn ceremony and two-minute silence which were led by the three remaining survivors of the Great War, now all well over 100 years old.

In France, ceremonies held at Verdun, the major Franco-German battlefield, were led by President Nicolas Sarkozy and attended by Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall.