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Police in Louisiana, Mo., have said that a person of interest in the abduction of a 4-year-old Missouri girl has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

KMOX-TV, St. Louis, has reported that Paul S. Smith, 38, shot and critically injured himself as officers approached a home in Lincoln County Wednesday night.

Smith was a registered sex offender who pleaded guilty in 1995 to sodomizing a 10-year-old child, Police further said.

The Indian tractor maker Escorts Ltd has moved its boat towards the African continent and is planning to expand its footprint in the region. It is believed that after the company has bagged a $40 million order to supply tractors to Tanzania, it has started to take more interest in the African market.

Moreover, a top official of the company recently said that the company will be expanding its presence in the African continent in the times to come.

Officials said on Thursday that the second day the bulls ran in Pamplona, Spain, saw seven people injured, including two who were gored.

The Irish Times has reported that one man was gored in the thorax and listed in serious condition while the other man was gored in the left leg, an injury health officials said wasn't life-threatening.

Riding on the back of factors like easier availability of finance, expanding economy and aggressive product launches, the Indian automotive industry has been able to post an impressive growth of close to 25% in the first three months of the financial year.

According to the industry body, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) the first quarter of 2010-11 may prove to be the most impressive quarter for the financial year, as the body expects the growth to be around 10-18% mark for the next three quarters.

It has been reported that U. S. President Barack Obama congratulated the European Parliament on Thursday for approving revisions to the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program.

The program has provided critical investigative leads since its creation after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Obama said in a statement released by the White House.

An official has revealed that a cemetery in Jamaica's capital is facing a major expense to bury dozens of bones that have been disinterred by man or nature.

The Gleaner reported on Thursday that Kingston Town Clerk Errol Green said he is aware skulls and bones are protruding from shallow graves in sections of the 200-acre May Pen Cemetery.

Many of the bones appear to come from graves that have either collapsed or were removed by humans, Green has said.