A 15-year-old schoolgirl, who worked as a high-class hooker, raked in 14,000 pounds in two months.

The teenager, who claimed to be 18, attended classes during the weekdays, and worked for an escort agency at the weekends.

Her double life was discovered after a teacher found condoms in her school bag.

The school called in cops, who took the girl home, and then searched the house she was sharing with her mum and step dad.

Mexico City  - At least seven dogs that lived in a flat in a central Mexican town were killed by six masked attackers using a machete, the owner said Wednesday.

Neighbours who witnessed the attack said seven animals had been killed, but animal rights organization Pro Perro gave a much larger figure of 37 killed animals - including both cats and dogs, the Mexican daily El Universal reported.

"They were killed with blows of machetes and pipes," said Javier Cervantes, an animal-rights activist who kept the animals in his flat. He had rescued 52 dogs and 20 cats from the streets and ran a sort of informal shelter in a rented 60-square-metre flat in Jaltenco, in the state of Mexico adjoining the capital.

Amsterdam  - At least nine people were killed and more than 80 injured, 31 of them seriously, when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed near Schiphol airport just before landing on Wednesday.

Flight TK 1951 had 134 people on board, comprising 127 passengers and seven crew, and crashed on its approach to the airport at 10.31 am (0931), a press conference at the airport was told.

Three of the dead were the pilot, co-pilot and a trainee pilot of the Boeing 737-800, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed later in Ankara.

Dhaka  - The death toll from day-long shootings by rebel troops of Bangladesh paramilitary border forces against their commanders inside the Bangladesh Rifles
(BDR) headquarters rose to five with two more deaths reported in hospitals Wednesday, officials said.

Hospital authorities said two of the dead were mid-ranking officers of the Bangladesh Army and three were civilians.

Vienna  - An elderly Austrian farming couple just managed to escape an avalanche sweeping down towards their house in Tyrol province Wednesday - after being warned by their cows.

According to local police, the couple took heed as the cows in the barn grew agitated.

The 68-year-old man and his 63-year-old wife just got out in time before the avalanche descended on the their property, leaving it under snow up five metres high. The animals were unhurt.

The heavy snowfall of the past few days saw a large number of avalanches triggered in the Austrian Alps Wednesday.

A man was killed in the Salzburg province when he was buried while snowboarding away from marked slopes.