Washington, Dec 1: US intelligence officials are searching urgently for clues that might identify the attackers and to ease tensions between India and Pakistan, even as Indian officials claim “elements in Pakistan” were involved.

FBI agents are in India to investigate the attacks in Mumbai that killed at least 195 people, including six Americans. US State Department has warned citizens still in India’s financial capital that their lives remain at risk, CBS News reported.

A US counter-terrorism official said some “signatures of the attack” were consistent with the work of Pakistani militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed and reported to be linked to al Qaeda.

Abu Dhabi, Nov 29th, 2008 : A pavilion like no other, is how the imaginative and appealing structure for the United Arab Emirates' pavilion was described by HE Saqr Gobash, UAE Minister of Labour and Chairman of the National Media Council (NMC), at the official launch of the country's participation at Expo 2010 - the largest ever World Exposition event, scheduled to open on May 1st 2010 in Shanghai.

Tel Aviv, Nov. 28: Israel defence officials have criticised the way Indian security forces have handled the terror attacks in Mumbai.

The Jerusalem Post quoted officials of Israel''s security forces as saying that the operation to rescue hostages and counter-attack the terrorists was premature and badly planned.

"In hostage situations, the first thing the forces are supposed to do is assemble at the scene and begin collecting intelligence," The Times quoted a former official in Shin Bet, the Israel Security Agency, as saying.

"In this case, it appears that the forces showed up at the scene and immediately began exchanging fire with the terrorists instead of first taking control of the area," he said.

SHELBYVILLE, Ind.,  Nov. 27 -- Edna Scott Parker, who is said to be the oldest living person in the world, has died at age 115 in Indiana, her family said.

Parker died Wednesday at Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville, Ind., where she lived for more than a decade, the Shelbyville  News reported Thursday.

Her family was called to the nursing home Tuesday morning after nursing home personnel determined that Edna wasn't feeling well, said Charlene Parker, wife of Parker's grandson, Donald Parker.

She was responsive Tuesday evening before falling asleep.

Munich - A former German soldier described Thursday how he dragged a crate of explosives inside a house where 11 Italian men were detained to be killed.

His former commander, 90, is on trial for murdering the prisoners by blowing them up at Falzano, Italy in 1944.

The witness, who at the time was a 21-year-old sergeant in the 818th battalion of the German Army mountain combat engineers, said, "there was an order to do a blast."

The engineer, who regularly worked with explosives, put a box inside the village house.

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