Zamboanga City, Philippines - Government troops captured two local communist rebel leaders and overran a guerrilla camp in the southern Philippines, a regional army chief said Wednesday.

Major General Jogi Leo Fojas said the two rebel commanders were captured Monday during a raid on a guerrilla redoubt in Santa Cruz town in Davao del Sur province, 990 kilometres south of Manila.

Fojas said the soldiers seized the guerrilla encampment after 30 minutes of firefight.

The two captured guerrillas were undergoing tactical interrogation in a nearby army headquarters, according to Fojas.

Rome, Oct 22 : Archaeologists have discovered nine ancient Roman columns believed to have originally lined the most important Roman road into the Balkans, on a riverbed in northern Italy.

According to news agency ANSA, the stone columns are believed to date back to the fourth century AD and some carry inscriptions relating to the emperors of that late stage in the Roman Empire.

“''This is an extraordinary find because of the number of columns and the inscriptions they bear,” local archaeological authorities said.

The columns are originally believed to have served as milestones along the road that led from Aquileia to ancient Aemona, today the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.

After popular soap ‘Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki’, television bigwig Ekta Kapoor is ready to pull off air her hugely popular television soap ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ very soon.

According to sources, Star TV has sent a notice to Balaji Telefilms, asking them to end the long running soap by November 10.

But, Balaji Telefilms has termed the termination as a breach of contract, and has taken legal action against Star Group.

Balaji’s argument is that the agreement does not permit the channel (Star) to stop a show ahead of time.

Washington, Oct. 22 : The proverbial American dream of self-made success and well being is intact and remains important to most of them, according to the Washington Times.

More than three-fourths of Americans "personally believe" in the American dream and insist it''s what makes the nation dynamic.

According to a survey of 2,112 adults released Wednesday by J. Walter Thompson, a Manhattan-based marketing group, eight out of 10 want the next president to "breathe new life" into the concept, with more respondents citing Republican hopefuls than Democrats in such a lofty endeavor.

Washington, October 22: A new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health''s Center for Injury Research and Policy has revealed that the rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade.

According to the report, the annual overall suicide rate rose by 0.7 percent that was witnessed amongst whites aged 40-64, especially in middle-aged women.

The increase in the suicide rate between 1999 and 2005 saw an annual increase with the rate rising to 2.7 percent amongst middle-aged white men as against the 3.9 percent among middle-aged women.

New York, Oct. 22: The Republicans have unleashed a blistering mailing against Barack Obama that invokes the 9/11 attacks with a disturbing image of a jumbo jet and a warning that the Democrat nominee isn''t "who you think he is."

According to the New York Post, the attack flier reportedly has been landing in homes in Missouri and Virginia – two states that the Democrats have been working hard to convert to blue in November.

The front cover shows a plane with its nose aimed squarely at a few travelers in an airport waiting area, and warns, "Terrorists don''t care who they hurt."

The image of a plane in conjunction with terrorism was a clear reference to the airplanes-as-weapons attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.