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Authorities have revealed that hundreds of Southern California firefighters were battling three blazes Friday that scorched more than 1,500 acres in a 10-square-mile area.

The (Riverside, Calif.) Press-Enterprise has reported that the wildfires, all ignited by lightning on Thursday in Riverside County, about 160 miles southeast of Los Angeles, were not growing. Only the smallest, the 70-acre Saddle Fire, was more than 50 percent contained by Friday morning,

According to the media reports, British Premier David Cameron's battle with social networking site Facebook over a page that glorified a dead killer has prompted a debate on free speech on the Internet.

Tata Steel has made announcement that its arm, NatSteel Holdings Pte, has sold around 27.03% equity stake in Southern Steel Berhad, Malaysia.

The deal is valued at $72 million.

In a declaration, the company said, "The sale is part of Tata Steel's strategy of restructuring its portfolio and reconsidering its position in geographies where it does not have a majority control."

Custom officers in Hong Kong have seized synthetic drugs valued at $22.5 million in the international market.

According to officials, this was one of the largest drug rackets ever cracked in the country.

As per reports, the officials have detained 5 suspects aged between 25 and 60.

All of them will be charged with manufacturing hazardous drug or trafficking in a dangerous drug and will appear at Tsuen Wan Magistrates' Courts on Saturday.

The steel scion- Vedanta group has launched its 300 crore Industrial township project in Orissa Industrial over a spread of 80 acres, scalable to 150 acres.

Designed to accommodate Vedanta's management and its workforce, the township consists of bungalows, 2500+ apartments, studio apartments, hostel accommodation and various facilities including shopping, a health club, school and health care centre.

Mumbai, July 17 : She is one of the youngest producers in Bollywood, an industry that has few active women producers. Sure enough, 23-year-old Rhea Kapoor says she found the job of making "Aisha" challenging and learnt that one has to swallow one's ego to run a project smoothly in the film industry.

"The most difficult part is that you have to take responsibility for everything. If anything goes wrong, it's your fault. You have to swallow your ego a lot of times to balance things and get the work done," Rhea told IANS.