Six die, 36 in hospital after smoking drug
Moscow: Six Russians have died and dozens have been hospitalised after they smoked a legal synthetic drug in the far northern city of Surgut, prosecutors said on Friday.
Earth’s water is older than the Sun
Washington: A significant fraction of our Solar System’s water is older than the Sun, which indicates that abundant, organic-rich interstellar ices should probably be found in all young planetary systems, astronomers say.
11 missing after vessel capsizes
Rio De Janeiro: Search and rescue teams combed the Paraguay River in search of 11 tourists still missing a day after their boat capsized and sank in Brazil’s central Mato Grosso.
Three children die
in fire in Serbia
Belgrade: Authorities say three young Gypsy children have died in a fire in a small wooden shack that has been their home on the outskirts of Belgrade.
Four militants killed in Pakistan
Peshawar: Four militants including three key commanders
of Pakistani Taliban, who were involved in 60 high-profile terrorism cases, have been killed by security forces in the restive Khyber Agency bordering Afghanistan.
Pak test-fires short range missile Hatf IX
Islamabad: Pakistan successfully test-fired short range surface-to-surface missile ‘Hatf IX’ that has a range of 60 kms and can cover parts of India.
Scotland Yard arrests 2 more terror suspects
london: Two more men were arrested on Friday in the UK in connection with an investigation into “Islamist- related terrorism”, a day after nine others, including a radical Pakistani-origin Islamist
preacher, were detained during anti-terror raids.
N Korea slams Park speech at UN
Seoul: North Korea called South Korean President Park Geun-Hye a “political prostitute” as it denounced her call at the UN General Assembly for Pyongyang to improve its human rights record and abandon nuclear weapons.
Russia, Ukraine in talks on gas as winter looms
Berlin: Russia and Ukraine are holding talks to solve their long-running gas dispute as pressure mounts for a solution to head off a winter supply crisis in Ukraine.