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Peshawar, Nov 5 : The Pakistan Government has set free 25 militants in exchange for the release of 213 army personnel who were held hostage in South Waziristan for over two months.

Sydney, November 5 : A researcher at the University of Melbourne has devised a way to make broadband connections up to 100 times faster.

Peshawar, Nov 5 : Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Chairwoman Asma Jehangir has urged “friends of Pakistan” to persuade the US to stop supporting President General Pervez Musharraf.

The US must “stop supporting the instable dictator, as his lust for power is bringing the country close to a worse form of a civil strife,” said Jehangir, who was put under house arrest for three months on Saturday after the proclamation of an emergency.

“It is time now for the international community to insist on preventive measures otherwise it may take decades to clean the mess,” Jehangir said in a statement.

Washington, Nov. 5 : Scientists have discovered a new species of a pig-like mammal called a peccary in the southeastern Amazon region of Brazil.

London, Nov 5 : Scientists have found the evidence of explosion of a supernova during the Pilocene era from ancient sea floor sediments lying at the bottom of the ocean.