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Two trainer aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force crashed into a thickly populated area in the country's northwest on Thursday, injuring sTwo trainer aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force crashed into a thickly populated area in the country's northwest on Thursday, injuring several persons on the ground, police and residents said.everal persons on the ground, police and residents said.

Sikh police officers in the American capital will be allowed to wear turbans, beards and other religious items while on the job.

Oman police are reported to have arrested 24 Indians, including 13 women, in a raid for allegedly practicing sorcery and cheating people. The police reportedly seized skulls, bones, magic stones and chains during the raid. The alleged sorcerers were staying in a residential flat near the Muttrah roundabout and were luring clients by offering them fortune and relief.

Several Western embassies here on Wednesday received letters containing suspicious powder and threats to poison NATO soldiers in Afghanistan, Pakistan officials said.

Russia is seeking potential buyers for a batch of 18 Sukhoi Su-30 multi-role fighter aircraft, rejected by India on concerns about their engines and returned in 2003, a Russian defense official said on Wednesday.

Infosys chief mentor Narayana Murthy has been felicitated with the Global Leadership and Free Enterprise awards by the University of South Florida in recognition of his entrepreneurial spirit.

A Myanmar vice president with close ties to former junta chief Than Shwe has become a monk, officials said on Wednesday, in a move observers believe could strengthen the hand of the country's reformers.

Arunava Majumdar, eminent Indian American scientist has resigned after the US Senate did not confirm President Barack Obama's proposal to elevate him as undersecretary at the Department of Energy.

China and Japan have exchanged a fresh round of claims and counter claims over a tiny but crucial outcropping in the Pacific Ocean, with Tokyo asserting that a UN commission had endorsed its stand on the atoll being an 'island' while Beijing rejecting it as "baseless".

Italy on Wednesday seized a hotel complex and land belonging to the family of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in the latest such confiscation, a media report has said.