Lima - In the north of Peru a tour bus plunged 150 metres down into a ravine

New York, Sept 29: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zaradri has said that he wanted to suck life out the Taliban and other terrorists so that the menace of terrorism is uprooted for ever in his country.

He said he wanted to fight out the Taliban because it were a cancer to the Pakistani society which killed his wife.

Washington - Congress on Sunday was on the threshold of sealing a controversial 700-billion-dollar bailout deal intended to pull the US back from the edge of a financial meltdown.

The measure, which is intended to thaw out frozen credit lines with a government purchase of toxic mortgage assets and securities, could go for a vote as early as Monday.

Conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives were still waiting to see the final draft written by staffers who worked through the night, but they indicated they had oral agreement on some of their demands that Wall Street carry more of the plan's burden.

The Irish government has donated more than 1.5 million dollars to Irish immigration organizations in the United States, a statement from Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said Sunday.

The total of 1,518,500 dollars would go to 16 organizations "which provide frontline support and advisory services to Irish emigrants."

Dublin has so far provided over 3.1 million dollars to immigration groups this year as up to an estimated 50,000 Irish citizens living and working in the US face possible deportation for not having visas.

Dublin has been pressuring Washington to grant the so-called undocumented Irish legal status.

Washington, Sept 28 : In a first of its kind survey on free-living protozoa in meat-cutting plants, scientists have shown high diversity rates of various species including those that could harbour food-borne pathogens.

Protozoa are unicellular microorganisms that feed on bacteria. Sometimes the bacteria survive and replicate within the protozoa.

While bacterial presence in meat-processing environments has been previously examined, scientists have not conducted a single study of protozoan communities in these environments and their role in food contamination.

Baghdad - Three Iraqi civilians were killed on Sunday and another three soldiers were injured in two separate incidents in Iraq's restive Diyala province, a security source said.

Some gunmen, suspected to be affiliated to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, attacked a gathering of people in Baquba, shooting three civilians dead, a security source told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

Also in Diyala, three Iraqi soldiers were injured in a blast that targeted their army patrol in Baquba's Beldouzer district.

Baquba is located 57 kilometres north-east of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

In a similar incident, another three Iraqi soldiers were injured in an explosion that struck their patrol in west Baghdad.