New York, Sep 6 : Investigators have finally determined that fire caused Building 7 at the World Trade Center to collapse on September 11, 2001.

The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center''s Building 7 at 5:20 p. m. on Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires from the building itself, NIST announced Friday, following an extensive, three-year investigation. This was the first known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building, the agency said.

Dr. Shyam Sunder with the National Institutes of Standards and Technology said it was primarily due to fire.

After a three year investigation, he discovered debris from Tower 1 started fires on at least 10 floors of Building 7.

Miranshah (Pakistan), Sept 6: Four children, a woman and a man were killed in Pakistan’s Miranshah tribal area when a suspected US drone hit two houses here on Friday morning.

Miranshah is located on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in North Waziristan.

“Three missiles were fired from a drone that hit two houses. Four children, a woman and a man have been killed in the attack,” the Daily Times quoted Pakistan intelligence officials as saying on condition of anonymity.

London - Paintings capturing the impact of the Holocaust on artists who survived Nazi concentration camps and others who reflected on the subject in the decades since World War II are at the centre of a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London.

The exhibition, titled Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, presents works ranging from eyewitness records of those directly affected to reflections produced decades later and responses from temporary artists to the Nazi persecution of the Jews.

At its centre are haunting images of contorted ashen faces and dark eyeless stares of paintings by Holocaust survivors Alicia Melamed Adams and Roman Halter, who were both orphaned and settled in Britain after the war.

Madrid ­ For the affluent gourmets dining at Spain's top restaurants, a sugar ball flavoured with smoked oak might constitute a nice little novelty.

Tobacco ice cream might also make the bill of nearly 200 euros (290 dollars) worth it, as would lamb tail cooked in ravioli, a deconstructed omelette or liquid croquettes.

Playful, surprising and provocative meals are dished up by avant- garde chefs in a country whose haute cuisine has risen to compete with that of France.

Washington  - The number of homes in foreclosure has reached a new record in the United States as the country's housing crisis continues to inflict damage on the wider US economy, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Friday.

The number of new mortgage holders entering foreclosure in the second quarter stood at 1.19 per cent of all US mortgages - the first time the rate has topped 1 per cent in the 29-year-history of the association's record keeping.

Bogota  - Three military and two police officers were killed Friday in an ambush by leftist rebels in the north-western province of Choco, on the border with Panama, officials said.

Choco police chief Coronel Javier Herrera said army and police were patrolling the area between Quibdo town and Tutunedo, one of the poorest regions in the country.

The patrol was attacked by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Herrera said.