Pilots on an Air India flight from Mumbai to Saudi Arabia last August had an unexpected visitor in the cockpit: a rat.
The rodent crawled over the first officer’s leg and disappeared into the plane’s avionics bay. The aircraft arrived safely and was later fumigated.
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Alcopops containing caffeine and alcohol have been removed from the shelves in the US, following reports of students becoming dangerously drunk. The move comes amid anxiety about similar drinks in countries from Scotland to Mexico.

"In one can you have the equivalent of almost a bottle of wine and a couple of cups of coffee. That's a lot of alcohol and caffeine all at once. And young people tend to drink these things quickly."

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An anonymous group of internet activists appear to have launched a series of cyber attacks to shut down the websites of Mastercard, a Swiss bank and the Swedish prosecutor's office in an apparent retaliation for action taken against WikiLeaks.
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The live broadcast via an internet chat site of a 24-year-old woman hanging herself has sparked fresh concern over the harm webcam-based sites can have on Thai youths.
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Family, friends and classmates turned to prayer and Facebook on Wednesday amid an ongoing search in upstate New York for a missing college student.
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Former American student Amanda Knox went back to court Wednesday to appeal her conviction for murdering her British roommate.
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North Korea will launch additional attacks on South Korea if it continues "reckless military provocation," North Korean state media said Thursday.

All 29 miners trapped underground in a New Zealand mine are dead, the official in charge of a the rescue attempt said Wednesday.
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On a bitterly cold night at Incheon port, the old and frail emerge into the light. They have been ferried here to safety, many still in shock after being caught in the crossfire as North and South Korea traded fire on the island of Yeonpyeong.
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North Korea on Tuesday fired artillery into the sea near its tense western sea border with South Korea, injuring at least four South Korean soldiers and two civilians, the Yonhap news agency reported.
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The younger son of political activist Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Myanmar on Tuesday for a long-awaited visit with his mother, from whom he'd been separated for a decade.
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In this village in Pakistan's Punjab province a tearful 12-year-old girl ponders if the Pakistani government will soon hang her mother.

A U.S. State Department team arrived in South Korea on Monday in response to a U.S. scientist's report that North Korea has a new uranium enrichment facility.
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An American nuclear scientist says he has seen hundreds of centrifuges in a sophisticated new atomic facility in North Korea this month. read more : aljazeera.net

Bangkok's Wat Phai Ngern will host a grand merit-making and cleansing ritual - and demolish its morgue - next Saturday, following the discovery of more than 2,000 human foetuses at the temple. read more : thaivisa.com

A recent terror operation involving parcel bombs on UPS and FedEx flights cost just $4,200, according to a report in a magazine that analysts say is published by al Qaeda's branch in Yemen. read more : cnn.com

Red-shirt supporters began a day of symbolic protests in the capital on Friday by gathering outside the Bangkok Remand Prison, six months to the day since the deadly crackdown on their prolonged anti-government rally.