Moscow  - Russia said Wednesday it could start an oil reserve as part of an effort with OPEC countries to bolstered prices down by half since July peaks.

OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri met with President Dmitry Medvedev on a two-day visit to coordinate policy with Moscow Wednesday before an emergency session of oil-exporting countries in Vienna Friday to discuss stop-gap measures to halt plummeting prices.

Patna , Oct. 22 (ANI): Many residents in Patna enjoy addressing a cobbler as ‘Doctor’, for he is quite popular for his expertise in mending all types of footwear.

Many of his customers say that he handles shoes like a surgeon handles a human body.

Doman Das, in his mid-fifties, is adept at handling all kinds of footwear related problems. His shop attracts attention due to its unusual name ‘Shoe Clinic’.

Apart from mending footwear, ‘Dr.’ Doman Das is also known for making best quality shoes. He has been into this profession for last 40 years. He prepares shoes as per client’s desire and requirement.

New York  - US aerospace giant Boeing reported Wednesday that its third-quarter net income fell 38 per cent year-on-year to 695 million dollars, as the company was hit by the costs of a protracted machinists' strike.

Earnings per share in the period came to 0.96 dollars, down 33 per cent from the third quarter last year, with Boeing also citing the costs of supplier production problems on customer-furnished galleys for some wide-bodied planes.

London- Firefighters in Britain had a couple of interesting encounters on Wednesday: a naked burglar stuck in a chimney and a runaway hamster.

The burglar had to be freed from a chimney at a supermarket in Wigan near Manchester in northern England.

The 22-year-old suspect, who had lost his clothes trying to squeeze his own way out, was treated in hospital, reports said.

Maputo  - The chief executive of Mozambique's state-owned airport management company Aeroportos de Mocambique (AdM) was being held by police Wednesday on suspicion of defrauding the company of millions of dollars.

Diodino Cambaza, 44, was arrested late Tuesday, after an investigation by the attorney general found evidence that Cambaza and several other board members, including the chief financial officer, had swindled company funds since 2005 when he was sworn in as the new chairman.

The financial officer was also arrested.

Berlin  - Germany affirmed its military operations in Afghanistan on Wednesday, two days after a Taliban suicide bomber killed two German soldiers and five Afghan children in the northern city of Kunduz.

"Reconstruction in Afghanistan is impossible without security," government deputy spokesman Thomas Steg said.

He said German Chancellor Angela Merkel had sent condolences to the families of all seven bomb victims.