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Amsterdam  - The Dutch government should be less tolerant of drug and alcohol use among teenagers, an expert advisory body to the government recommended in a report it presented on Thursday.

The committee said the legal age at which teenagers are permitted to buy alcohol should be raised from 16 to 18, the same legal age at which Dutch nationals are allowed to purchase soft drugs such as marijuana.

London, July 2 : Michael Jackson had a secret girlfriend, and he died from excessive drugs provided by corrupt doctors, the star''s bodyguard has claimed.

Matt Fiddes alleged that his and guru Uri Geller''s efforts to hide drugs and needles from the singer''s room often failed because the King of Pop managed to get some more from the doctors, who he said billed fans up to 10,000 pounds for introductions to their idol.

Hyderabad, July 2 : The Andhra Pradesh Bank Association on Thursday announced that it would approach the State Human Rights Commission (APHRC) to look into the "Slapgate" case involving Congress and Dalit Member of Parliament M. Jagannath.

It may be recalled that Jagannath, an MP representing the Congress party in the Nagarkurnool constituency of Andhra Pradesh''s Mahabubnagar District, slapped Ravindra Reddy, the manager of a local bank, for allegedly denying loans to Dalit applicants.

Beijing  - A woman infected with H1N1 influenza has died "accidentally" at a hospital in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, state media on Thursday quoted officials as saying.

Medical staff found the unidentified 34-year-old woman dead in a restroom at the No 1 People's Hospital in Hangzhou's Xiaoshan district on Wednesday, local health officials told the government's Xinhua news agency.

Jerusalem  - Israel and Palestinian militants committed war crimes during the Gaza war of last winter, Amnesty International said in its first comprehensive report on the 22-day conflict, published Thursday.

The London-based human rights groups called for an international arms embargo on both Israel and the radical Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza.

Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, it said in the 117-page report.

London, July 2 : A mummified dinosaur unearthed in North Dakota, US, may contain traces of 66-million-year old organic material, which could provide vital information about its evolution.

The well-preserved fossil of the plant-eating hadrosaur, complete with skin and tendons, was discovered in 1999.

Named "Dakota", it was a rare find as bacteria in the soil usually break down soft tissue quickly.

However, the rapid burial of Dakota in a waterlogged, low-oxygen environment allowed fossilisation to outpace the normal processes of microbial decay, preserving areas of soft tissue.