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.

Moscow - Russian arms manufacturers need urgent help from the state to meet their defence orders amid the global credit crunch, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday.

Russia is the world's second-largest weapons exporter after the United States, and the Kremlin's aggressive salesmanship has produced a flush of billion-dollar deals in recent months.

But the industry is facing a cash drought that is threatening state-owned manufacturers' ability to carry through contracts, the news agency Interfax cited Ivanov as saying.

Washington, Nov. 11 : Barack Obama is likely to be the first fully wired President of the United States, given the millions of e-mail addresses and a political operation that harnessed the Internet like no campaign before it.

According to the Washington Post, Obama aides and allies are preparing a major expansion of the White House communications operation, enabling them to reach out directly to the supporters they have collected over 21 months without having to go through the mainstream media.