Kabul  - A NATO soldier was killed by a roadside bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan Saturday, while the Afghan and international forces killed 47 suspected Taliban and an Afghan women in separate operations elsewhere in the country, the military said.

In the latest incident, the soldier, who was a member of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died of wounds he had sustained during a roadside bomb blast in the southern region, ISAF said in a statement.

Islamabad  - At least three people h

Islamabad  - At least one member of the security forces was killed and five were injured Saturday in an explosion near a paramilitary checkpoint in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, eyewitnesses said.

The blast occurred in the upmarket residential area of E-7 where several embassies, a UN office and diplomatic residences are also located.

"It was a suicide bombing," said Omar Hayyat, a soldier from the paramilitary Frontier Corps, who was admitted to a local hospital with injuries. "He was on foot," he added.

London - Shortly before his 98th birthday, pensioner George Moyse has become Britain's oldest-ever parachutist.

The native of Dorset, on England's south coast, jumped out of a perfectly good aeroplane some 3,000 metres into the wide blue yonder.

Moyse, who was strapped to his instructor in the tandem jump, was in a free fall for the first 1,500 metres, and then floated to a perfect landing on Salisbury Plain, in the county of Wiltshire.

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