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ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat is satisfied with the crowd response at T20 World Cup going on in West Indies.

Although the stands are yet to be filled up completely, Lorgat is happy with the response of the local crowd in the tournament.

He has accepted that it was a major mistake of ICC during the ICC World Cup 2007 when they had not allowed the local fans with musical instruments in to the stands. People in West Indies love the game and also like to enjoy it in their own way. In the 2007 World Cup, there were very less number of locals.

The city's police commissioner says that a police officer acted appropriately when using a stun gun on a Philadelphia Phillies fan who jumped onto the field.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has reported that Commissioner Charles Ramsey, speaking Tuesday to KYW Radio, said the officer "acted appropriately" when he fired a Taser to subdue a 17-year-old male fan who had run onto the field Monday night at Citizens Bank Park.

According to news reports, Jurors deliberated for a second day Tuesday in the Nevada trial of a lawsuit by a man who blames pharmaceutical companies for his infection with hepatitis C.

No verdict had been reported by mid-afternoon.

It was reported that Henry Chanin, headmaster of The Meadows School, is seeking damages from Teva Parenteral Medicines Inc. and Baxter Healthcare Corp., The Las Vegas Sun reports. One of the companies made and the other distributed the anesthetic used at the Desert Shadow Endoscopy Clinic, where Chanin was infected in 2006.

Chanin also sued the clinic and doctors there, but those claims have been settled.

A feeder supplying electricity to the water pumping station at Ravet on Sunday evening crashed causing interruption in water supply on Monday. Various areas of Pimpri Chinchwad have to face water deficiency; few areas received water at low pressure while some areas do not receive water.

Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation and Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Corporation Ltd worked for over 10 hours and finally feeder was repaired at 5 am on Monday.

A criminal complaint has indicated that a man in federal custody admitted he tried to set off a car bomb in New York and received bomb-making training in Pakistan.

The New York Times has reported that Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U. S. citizen from Pakistan, was charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction and other related crimes as the investigation into Saturday's failed car bombing expanded to Asia, where Pakistani authorities arrested several people linked to the suspect.

According to the official reports, the FBI has joined the investigation into a weekend riot in Santa Cruz, Calif., that police believe was instigated by an anarchist group.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel has reported that the event was billed as a May Day party on fliers posted at the University of California at Santa Cruz and elsewhere. About 250 people showed up Saturday to attend the unauthorized party.

It was confirmed by the FBI on Monday that it had joined the investigation.