A world that vanished in the horror of the Holocaust, the Jewish community of Vilnius, resurfaced at the Frankfurt Book Fair with the publication of the diary of the ”Lithuanian Anne Frank”.
China’s first national family planning law took effect on Sunday, with the aim of preventing families which violate China’s ”one-child policy” from facing unnecessarily harsh punishment and standardising policy.
China said on Friday it had removed the BBC World television news channel from its airwaves for ”infringing” broadcast rules
Thousands of people went on a rampage at a music festival in Rustenburg on Sunday, setting musical equipment alight, smashing car windows and damaging property in the streets surrounding the show grounds.
India confirmed on Saturday it had lost an unmanned plane over Pakistani territory as one million Indian and Pakistani troops remian stationed on the arch-rivals’ common borders.
India’s expected package of measures to ease tensions with Pakistan is not likely to include any military steps at this stage.
Rescue workers removed 79 bodies from the carnage of the train derailment in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, reports said on Wednesday.
Firing across the India-Pakistan border killed at least 14 people on each side and three Indian police officers were slain by suspected Islamic militants on Thursday.
Britain and the United States have not suspended arms sales to India amid the current military stand-off with Pakistan.
India’s railway authorities plan to introduce on-board massage facilities to relieve the aches and pains — and boredom ? of long-distance rail travellers.