30 dead in Indian road crash

A heavy goods truck careered onto the wrong side of the road and smashed head-on into two packed vehicles in the northeast of India on Thursday, killing at least 30 and injuring 10, officials said.

A police spokesperson said the accident took place on a highway on Thursday near the village of Doholapara in the Barpeta district of Assam, about 140 kilometres (90 miles) west of the main city of Guwahati.

The driver of the truck was arrested by police shortly after the accident.

"The two pick-up vans were carrying more people than the permissible limits. A probe has been ordered," district magistrate Siddhartha Singha said, saying 28 died on the spot and another two had succumbed to their injuries.

Some 110,000 people were killed in road accidents in 2011 - more than 300 every day - according to the latest available statistics from the National Crime Records Bureau.

Clashes flare at pro-Mursi march in Egyptian city, one dead

A high school student was killed when opponents and supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi clashed in the city of Suez on Wednesday night, medical and security sources said.

The two sides exchanged gunfire and threw petrol bombs after supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mursi chanted anti-army slogans as they marched in the city, the sources said.

Abdullah Mohamed Attia, 17, died from a bullet wound, the state news agency reported. The student was supporter of Mursi, the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party said in a statement.

The European Union's foreign policy chief is in Cairo this week to encourage reconciliation between the Brotherhood and the government installed after the army removed Mursi on July 3 following mass protests against his rule.

Since Mursi's downfall, security forces have killed hundreds of pro-Mursi protesters, and senior members of the Brotherhood have been arrested - actions that drastically reduced the size of protests.

A pro-Mursi alliance said it would march on Tahrir Square in central Cairo on Sunday. Mursi supporters on Tuesday briefly protested in the square for the first time since the army forced Mursi from office.

More than 100 killed at Cairo protest!

More than 100 people are reported to have been killed in Cairo at a protest being held by supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi.

A doctor at a field hospital close to the protest at the Rabaa al -Adawiya mosque said that more than 1,000 people had also been injured.

The health ministry put the death toll at 20, with 177 wounded.

Both pro-and anti-Mursi supporters had been holding huge protests overnight in the capital.

Many thousands occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square in support of the army, which removed Mursi form office on 3 July.

Army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had urged people to take to the streets to give the military a mandate for its intervention.

Early on Saturday, interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim had vowed to end the sit-in at the capital's Nasr City area.

He said local residents had complained about the encampment and that the protest would be 'brought to an end soon and in a legal manner'. 

The minister said the prosecutor would issue an order, but this has yet to happen.

Pakistan flood kills 45, more rain warned!

Pakistani disaster relief officials issued fresh flood warnings on Sunday after the death toll from heavy monsoon rains rose to 45 and waters paralysed parts of the largest city Karachi.

Flash floods caused by monsoon downpours have inundated some main roads in the sprawling port city and swept away homes in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The National Disaster Management Authority warned that more thunderstorms and heavy rains were expected on Monday and some rivers may flood.

At least 45 people have been killed in the floods over the weekend.

Obama played cards ahead of Bin Laden raid : ex-aide

A former aide to Barack Obama has said the US president resorted to playing cards on the day Osama Bin Laden was killed, such was the tension over the raid. Reggie Love, a personal assistant to Obama during the president's first term, said in a video that his boss opted not to watch the full live feed of the clandestine US commando mission in Pakistan that killed the Al-Qaeda chief in 2011.

Most people were like down in the situation room but he was like, 'I'm not gonna be down there, I can't watch this entire thing,' so he, myself, Pete Souza the White House photographer, we must have played 15 games of spades.

Love made the comments in an interview at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), on July 18, according to New York Magazine that published the exchange on its website on Wednesday.

An official picture released after the successful raid shows Obama alongside then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and other top officials watching a video feed of the operation.