News In Brief

Alaska plane crash kills 10
Afp, Washington

Ten people were killed when an air taxi airplane crashed Sunday at the airport in the US city of Soldotna, in the state of Alaska, city police told AFP.
The National Transportation Safety Board said late Sunday on its Twitter feed that it has sent a team to investigate the crash.
Alaska local media said the plane was a De Havilland DHC-3 Otter aircraft operated by Rediske Air.

Antarctic Lake Vostok 'might have fish'
BBC Online

There could be some complex animals living in Lake Vostok, which lies close to 4km below Antarctica's ice sheet.
The possibility is raised by scientists who have sifted genetic material in ice drilled from close to Vostok's surface.
They found signatures for organisms such as bacteria that are often associated with marine molluscs, crustaceans and even fish.

Bus accident kills 12 in Pakistan
Dawn Online

At least 12 passengers were killed and over 35 injured when a bus overturned near Dadu yesterday morning. The dead also included women and children.
According to a media reports, the passenger bus was heading to Karachi from Larkana when it overturned in Dadu near Khudabad Turn on Indus Highway, leaving six dead on the spot.

Myanmar's heroin 'Godfather' dies
Afp, Yangon

A notorious crony of Myanmar's former junta, dubbed by the US the "Godfather of Heroin" after decades as a global drug trafficker, has died aged 80, according to a family announcement yesterday.
Lo Hsing Han, a major heroin trafficker since the 1970s, avoided a death sentence in his early drug career only to reinvent himself as a tycoon at the head of one of Myanmar's largest firms in a roller-coaster life that saw him amass huge wealth.

Mrs Kerry hospitalized
Afp, New York

The wife of US Secretary of State John Kerry was hospitalized late Sunday with an unknown illness after reportedly being rushed by ambulance for treatment in a "critical condition."
Heinz Kerry, a multilingual philanthropist born to Portuguese parents in colonial-era Mozambique, arrived in a "critical but stable condition," the Boston Globe daily reported.
Globe daily reported.