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Observers have said that a Chinese court has sentenced a college professor to prison for organizing a group sex club, sparking a debate on civil liberties.

Xinhua news agency reported on Friday that the court in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing handed down a guilty verdict and sentenced Ma Yohai, 53, to 3 1/2 years in prison.

Ma and 22 other defendants were charged with holding group sex encounters at the professor's home.

A new research has revealed that people suffering from type-2 diabetes are more prone to 24 types of cancer.

Kari Hemminki of DKFZ joined hands with fellow workers in Sweden and the US to conduct the key research ever on cancer risks of people having type 2 diabetes.

The research comprised 125,126 Swedish people who had been hospitalized because of troubles linked with type 2 diabetes.

The researchers compared the cancer incidence in these sufferers with that of the general population in Sweden.

Officials have informed that the bodies of 15 people have been found at the site of a plane crash in a mountainous northern province of Afghanistan.

Xinhua news agency reported on Friday that the Pamir Airways flight from the northern Kunduz province, bound for Kabul with 43 persons aboard, went missing moments after takeoff earlier this week.

Afghan Parliament member Fatima Aziz said after visiting the crash site in the Gorband district of Parwan province, "So far 15 bodies of the plane crash victims have been found."

Both Nifty and the Sensex lost more than 3% each during the week ended May 21.

The overall reaction of the stock market was weak because of fears that the European debt disaster could upset the economic recovery throughout the world.

But, positive earnings surprise from engineering firm L&T and the administration declaration of an increase in price of APM gas to $4.2 per mbtu strengthenthe the overall outlook of the market.

It has been reported that E-Green Technologies-21st Century Airships marked a milestone for its high-altitude airship program following a successful inflation test in Alabama.

According to reports, E-Green Technologies-21st Century Airships, based in Alabama, announced its 235-foot long, 65-foot diameter homeland security airship called the Bullet 580 has completed its inflation test.

According to official reports, the U. S. Navy has placed an order with Orbit International Corp. for the delivery of its next-generation entry panels to upgrade vessel consoles.

Its Electronics unit was selected to deliver its Color Programmable Entry Panels to replace the Navy's current Plasma Entry Panels integrated with the UYQ-21 Naval console, New York's Orbit has said.