Colombo: A bomb blast blamed on LTTE killed six policemen and wounded 50 people, including civilians, in Sri  Lanka’s Capital Colombo Friday, the military said.

Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said a suicide bomber on a motorbike triggered the bomb as he rode by a bus carrying policemen on a busy street in Colombo.

The bomber rammed into the bus, he said, blaming separatist Tamil rebels.

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Beijing: Relief troops walked hours over rock, debris and mud in hopes of reaching the worst-hit area of an earthquake that rocked central China on Monday, killing nearly 10,000 people, state-run media reported.

Setting out from Maerkang in Sichuan Province at 8 pm on Monday, the 100 or so troops had to travel 200 kilometers (124 miles) to go before reaching Wenchuan, the epicenter of the quake, also in the province, Xinhua reported. After seven hours, they still had 70 kilometers (43 miles) to go.

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West Springfield, Pennsylvania: Six Indian nationals who were on their way to visit Niagara Falls were killed when their minivan spun out of control and was hit by an oncoming car on a Pennsylvania highway, police said on Sunday.

Four of those killed worked at the Troy, Michigan-based Syntel Inc, an information technology company, and two were spouses of employees, company spokesman Jonathan James said on Sunday.

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LONDON: Two cousins of Indian origin at the University of Oxford have overnight become millionaires after a free online service they started for students was sold for 2.5 million pounds within months after its launch.

Kulveer Taggar, 24, and Harjeet Taggar, 22, started their company ‘Auctomatic’ as a free online service while studying and working in the university’s student society Oxford Entrepreneurs. Read the full story

LONDON/VIJAYAWADA: The brutal assault and death of the 23-year-old student from Vijayawada in Birmingham continues to be shrouded in mystery, though the police have arrested a youth on suspicion of murder.

A West Midlands policeman on Thursday told TOI that a murder inquiry has been launched into Vempala Samrajya Jyothirmayi’s death in her apartment. “The arrested man, aged around 24 years, is helping us in the probe,” he said, but refused to specify the man’s nationality. “There is no indication of any motive at this stage.”

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