London, Sept. 9: Following is the list of the world’s ten most decadent dictators

1. Kim Jong-il of North Korea: Has super-expensive tastes, with 17 palaces, and collections of hundreds of cars and about 20,000 videotapes. Loves to eat live lobsters and drinks 650,000 dollars worth of Hennessy VSOP cognac a year, besides having an entourage of young lovelies known as the "Pleasure Brigade"

2. Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines President from 1965 to 1986: Secreted billions of dollars in overseas accounts.

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Beijing - At least 26 people died on Monday after a landslide caused by heavy rain destroyed a mine warehouse in a mountainous area of northern China's Shanxi province, state media said.

Several others were trapped under rubble and rescue workers had not established the exact number of people missing at the Tashan mine near Shanxi's Linfen city, the Xinhua news agency quoted local safety officials as saying

Torrential rain caused mud and rock to flow down a hillside and engulf the building early Monday morning, the agency said.

London, Sept 8 : A YouTube spoof video posted by the brother of an Al-Qaeda terrorist, in which he boasts how to make a bomb, is making rounds of internet circles.

The video shows Musa Ahmet, 47, chillingly looking into the camera saying: “Hi everybody. I’m going to show you how to make a deadly bomb in two minutes.”

Then he is shown fiddling with components out of view and finally holding up a sign with “Deadly Bomb” scribbled above a rough sketch of a device.

Musa is the brother of Atilla, 44, hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza’s personal bodyguard who called himself “the No 1 al-Qaeda in Europe”.

London, Sept. 8 : Security chiefs in the West are claiming that Islamist terrorists are developing a ''dirty'' bomb for use against Western targets.

According to them, at least one plot has been uncovered involving Pakistani-based terrorists planning to use nuclear material against a major European target.

The Telegraph also quoted them as saying that other militant Islamist groups in Pakistan, such as the newly formed Pakistani Taliban, have also shown an interest in developing weapons with a nuclear capability, according to Western security officials.

Security chiefs now fear that the mounting political instability in Pakistan will make it easier for militant Islamist groups to develop a primitive nuclear device.

Peshawar, Sep 8: Seven guided missiles have been fired from US spy planes in Miranshah and adjoining areas in North Waziristan, killing three persons and injuring 
15 others, including women and children.

According to sources, the guided missiles targeted the madarssah and house of Afghan commander Jalaluddin Haqqani in Miranshah.

Commander Haqqani was surfaced during war against Russia in Afghanistan and his guerrilla activities gave tough time to Russian forces during wartime, The News reported.

A drone operated by US-led forces in Afghanistan fired six to seven guided missiles at the seminary in Tanda Darpakhel, two kilometres from Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan.