Fierce gun battles have terminate a major spiritual festival in Iraq that had pinched hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims to the sacred city of Karbala.

Police told that the fights have left over 50 dead and 200 wounded. Troop reinforcements have been fetched and worshippers ordered to leave the city.

Drinking wine or beer could lessen the risk of kidney cancer, says a recent Swedish study. The researchers at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute studied the relation between intake of different types of alcoholic drinks and the chance of developing kidney cancer.

A report released in ‘The Lancet’ revealed that intake of calcium supplements in addition to vitamin D, radically lessens the risk of breaking a bone in people over 50.

An explosion went off in the northern Gaza Strip and Palestinian informants’ alleged Israeli aircraft had fired up a projectile at a rocket launcher, destructing it.

According to the Israeli ground forces that it had followed up an airstrike.

No one was injured in the attack in the Beit Hanoun town, local residents enounced.

Previously, the Islamic Jihad militant group stated it sent away a rocket in the direction of Israel from the area. No harms were reported in Israel.

Kuta (Indonesia): According to an official, some of Bali’s eating houses have taken chicken and duck off the food menu after two Indonesian women died out of bird flu in the last two weeks.

While Indonesia has reported 84 deaths from bird flu till this month. Now, functionaries fear that the two deaths from bird flu in Bali could hit tourism industry business.

Baghdad: The Iraqi prime minister and president declared a new coalition of moderate Shias and Kurds, alleging Sunni moderates defied to join but the door remained open to them.

Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki articulated the contract was the initial step to unfreeze political stagnancy that has gripped his Shia-led governance since it first accepted control in May 2006.