Washington  - After killing nearly 170 people in Haiti, Tropical Storm Hanna hit states along the US Atlantic coast Saturday, disrupting power lines and throwing flights out of gear.

The storm first drenched the states of South and North Carolina, whirling in with sustained winds of 85 kilometres per hour, before moving further northeast.

Thessaloniki, Greece  - More than 10,000 people rallied in the Greek northern port city of Thessaloniki on Saturday to protest the poor state of the economy.

The demonstrators marched through the city just as Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis was giving an annual speech on the economy and badly needed economic reforms at the site of an international trade fair where 2,000 police where deployed to contain any potential violence.

Peshawar, Pakistan  - At least 30 people were killed and more than 80 injured in a suicide car bombing on a security checkpoint on Saturday in north-west Pakistan, officials and hospital authorities said.

The attack took place at Zangali checkpoint, 15 kilometres from Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, local police chief Muhammad Suleman said.

Mumbai, Sept 6: Mumbai celebrated the popular festival dedicated to Lord Ganesha, with much pomp and show on Saturday.

The ten-day festival called as ''Ganesh Chaturthi'' began on Wednesday, which marks the birthday of lord Ganesha.

The festival is celebrated with much gaiety and people from all walks of life participate with equal enthusiasm and faith.

Karachi, Sept 6: A new study has found that the Hindus belonging to lower (Scheduled) castes are unofficially declared as “untouchables” and are given a second-grade-citizen treatment. Their kids are made to clean the school premises and are forces to sit on back benches.

The study also found that Hindu women belong to scheduled castes were the most vulnerable and considered “sexually available by men” of Muslim-dominated communities. Since the SC Hindus are economically weaker with no social support or political leverage in the community, their young women/ girls were lured into matrimony or abducted and wed through forced conversions.

London, Sept 6: Britons have voted the 1980s – the era dominated by mullet haircuts and shoulder pads – as the coolest decade in the past 50 years.

The new survey by an online sweets firm ‘A Quarter Of...’ has revealed that a third of people were at their happiest in the 80s and thought that life was better and simpler at the time.

Live Aid concert in 1985 was what made the eighties so popular, followed by Queen and frontman Freddie Mercury, ITV satire Spitting Image and the Rubik’s Cube, reports the Daily Star.

The film Dirty Dancing, with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, the Pac Man game and TV show Saturday Superstore also made 80s the coolest decade.