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A union official has said that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ordering unpaid furloughs for most state workers until a state budget is adopted.

There were no survivors among the 152 people aboard a jetliner that crashed on Wednesday in fog and torrential rain near Islamabad, Pakistani officials have said.

Rescuers worked in heavy rains to recover the bodies of 146 passengers and six crew members from the Airblue jetliner wreckage as officials began trying to determine why the Pakistani airline's 10-year-old Airbus 321 crashed.

The New York Times has reported that the dead included two Americans.

U. S. President Obama issued a statement expressing condolences to the families and friends of all who died.

Stock market analyst Rahul Mohinder has maintained 'buy' rating on Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd stock with targets of Rs 872 and 900.

According to analyst, the investors can buy the stock at Rs 850 with stop loss of Rs 845.

Today, the stock opened at Rs 851.40 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Current EPS & P/E ratio stood at 37.67 and 22.65 respectively.

The share price has seen a 52-week high of Rs 858.90 a low of Rs 435.55 on BSE.

U. S. authorities have said that a leader of an Islamic separatist group pleaded guilty Wednesday in the 1995 forced-march hostage-taking of 16 people in the Philippines.

Madhatta Haipe, a Filipino who was a founding member of al-Harakat al-Islamiyyah, also known as the Abu Sayyaf Group, pleaded guilty in U. S. District Court in Washington to four counts of hostage-taking, said the Justice Department. Four Americans and a U. S. permanent resident alien were among those abducted.

According to the official reports, Hungry rebels of the Allied Democratic Force attacked border villagers in western Uganda as they foraged for food after government forces isolated their supply routes.

The rebels' attacks on Uganda's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo came as President Yoweri Museveni's government and security forces grappled with the threat of further attacks after the July 11 suicide bombings in the capital.

According to the official reports, the U. S. House on Wednesday passed and sent to the president a bill bringing sentences in crack cocaine cases closer to those in powder cocaine prosecutions.

The House, by a voice vote, gave final congressional approval to the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which the Senate passed in March. The measure, which the White House says provides for the first reduction in federal mandatory sentences in 40 years, will go to President Barack Obama's desk for his signature.