Gurgaon, Sept 5 : Ten people were killed and two others were injured after a water tank that was under construction collapsed here in the National Capital Region last night.

Eyewitness said that some workers were washing their utensils and others were taking a bath when the half built water storage tank came down on them.

"The tank was outside, it was full of water and people drowned in it. Around 5 people died on the spot and two of us are injured," said Jai Karan, an injured.

Police are investigating into the matter and have not ruled out the use of substandard martial used in making of the storage tank as the cause for its collapse.

London, Sept 5: A new arsenal of police weapons has come to town that
surely will sound the death knell for criminals – they include stink
bombs, a glue gun and a Spider-Man-style web.

The surprising devices are among an armoury of “less-lethal” crime-fighting tools being considered for use by police chiefs.

According to a report by the Home Office’s Scientific Development
Branch said one of the most effective could be the vile-smelling stink

London, September 5: A septuagenarian man mistakenly declared dead eight years ago has been reunited with his family after his son spotted him by chance on a TV programme about missing people.

John Delaney, 71, went missing eight years ago, and due to spent the intervening years living in a care home using a different name because he could not remember his own due to amnesia caused by a head injury.

Staff at the care home, who called the old man David Harrison, have revealed that he retained a strong Irish accent from childhood and made regular references to "Tipperary" and "boxing".

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Hong Kong - Nearly 77,000 Chinese people a day visit Hong Kong as the former British colony welcomes record numbers of cross-border travellers, according to government figures released Friday.

The study by Hong Kong's Urban Planning and Design Department showed an 18-per-cent year-on-year jump in the number of mainland Chinese crossing the border to Hong Kong in 2007 to an average of 76,800 daily.

Wellington  - A New Zealand town council wants to dig up the grave of a dog that was sentenced to be destroyed for killing a protected fur seal to prove it is dead, a newspaper reported on Friday.

Peter Ray, 44, told the Greymouth District Court that his Alaskan Malamute called Hercules, which killed the seal after getting away from him on a beach walk, had subsequently died of a kidney infection and been buried in his garden.