London, Oct 22 : For the first time in nearly 20 years, an Italian airliner pilot has opened up about a near miss with a UFO after a record of the encounter was released by the Ministry of Defence in London.

Captain Achille Zaghetti, who lives in Grosseto, Tuscany, was flying from Milan to Heathrow when he and his co-pilot saw a mysterious khaki-coloured, missile-shaped object streaking across the sky above the Kent countryside.

While recalling the incident that occurred over Lydd, Kent, in 1991, Zaghetti revealed that the 10ft-long UFO came so close to the airliner that he shouted "Look out! Look out!" to his co-pilot, who also spotted the object.

Berlin, Oct 22: A team of archaeologists, scientists and software programmers has created a 3D virtual model of the city of Cologne as it was 2,000 years ago, which would enable visitors to virtually fly through the city.

According to a report in Spiegel Online, the new computer program will allow the curious to see Cologne, Germany’s fourth-largest city, as it was almost 2,000 years ago, when it was a major northern outpost of the Roman Empire.

“Now, for the first time, people will be able to visualize what an amazing city Cologne already was in antiquity,” said Hansgerd Hellenkemper, the director of the city’s Romano-Germanic Museum.

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Ghazni, Oct 22 : The Taliban in Afghanistan have reportedly directed the five mobile phone operators to shut their networks during the day time, as, they, say the mobile signals help the Afghan security agencies in tracking their fighters.

“We have informed mobile companies operating in Ghazni to turn off their signals during the daytime now as it endangers the lives of our fighters. We want the companies to cut off their signal for 10 days from now. The order might be extended,” the Dawn quoted Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid as saying.

The Taliban insurgents said that they had told the mobile phone operators to shut down their networks during the day in the Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul.

Seoul - Shares extended their losses Wednesday on the Seoul stock exchange as investors remained worried over the impact of a global recession.

Washington, Oct 22 : A recent poll findings released by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) have revealed that three in every four Americans were of the opinion that things in the US “were going badly” in the country, and that they were angry about it.

Asked if they were scared about the way things were going in America, 24 per cent said “very scared” and 43 per cent said “somewhat scared.”