Islamabad - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will request the Saudi leadership to defer payments on oil exports for the next two years to help his country avert a balance of payment crisis when he arrives in the kingdom on an official visit on Tuesday, his spokesman said.

"The president will discuss several regional and bilateral issues, including means to strengthen the bilateral relations and ways to tackle the menace of terrorism and extremism when he meets King Abdullah," spokesman Farhatullah Babar said.

Indian equities moved up in the positive terrain for a short while and soon slipped into the negative to trade on a flat note.

Some buying and selling is witnessed in bluechip stocks. Banking, PSU, power and banking stocks saw buying interest, whereas IT and auto stocks went down.

BSE Midcap and Smallcap index gained more than 1% each.

Today, Indian stock market opened with a loss of 33.11 points, at 10,304.57 as compared to the previous day session in which it gained 549.62 points.

Jakarta, Nov 4 : Unidentified terrorists have reportedly threatened to blow up the US and Australian embassies in Indonesia if the three Bali bombers were executed.

The three are expected to be executed in a day or two by placing them before a firing squad. Two days ago their relatives were asked to meet them in jail.

Following the threat from unidentified location, the Indonesian Police were investigating to trace those behind it.

“A bomb threat against the U. S. and Australian embassies was sent via a mobile phone text message,” The News quoted National Police spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira as saying.

He added that an investigation was underway into the threat.

Washington, Nov. 4 : Absentee and early voting could make it difficult to forecast preliminary results in the presidential polls on Tuesday evening.

Some political observers predict early and absentee voters will make up about 30 percent of the total votes on Election Day -- which could approach a record 130 million to 140 million.

And state-by-state statistics consistently show Democrats dominating Republicans in early turnout. That means exit polls based on Tuesday-only voting could trend more toward John McCain over Barack Obama.

Sunday was the lucky day for West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Union Steel Minister Ram Vilas Pawan. They narrowly escaped a powerful explosion on their way to Kalaichandi in Paschim Medinipur district. Police raised fingers on Maoists for the explosion.

Both leaders were returning from Salboni to Kolkata. They were in the town to attend foundation laying function of a mega steel plant established by Jindal Steel.

Hanoi - Floods and heavy rains in Vietnam have killed three more people and left two missing, disaster centres reported Tuesday, bringing the toll of dead and missing since the current round of storms began October 24 to at least 86.

The National Committee for Storm and Flood Control said the worst flooding in almost three decades has left at least 20 people dead and two missing in Hanoi since November 3. Up to 835 millimeters of rain fell on the city between Friday and Tuesday morning.

Victims have drowned or been struck by falling trees and collapsing buildings. Several were electrocuted by live power lines.