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• 13 perish in firing incidents in Karachi
• Pakistani mother, four children killed in British house fire
• ISESCO Award for Pakistani professor
• SIC train march reaches Rawalpindi
• 2 Americans win Nobel econ prize for match-making
• Car bombs, shootings kill 8 in Iraq, officials say
• Bahrain summons Iran envoy over 'interference'
• Matosevic shocks Haase in Vienna
• Safarova reaches 2nd round at Kremlin Cup
• FIFA makes key visit to Recife ahead of Confed Cup
• Jockey Richard Hughes wins 7 races in 1 day
• Oil finishes virtually unchanged from Friday
• Dollar rallies as US retail sales rise
• EU tightens financial noose on Iran, Syria with new sanctions
• Parents keep son's body in freezer for six years

13 perish in firing incidents in Karachi Posted: According to details some unidentified miscreants opened fire on people sitting outside a mosque at Abul Hassan Isfahani Road and killed four men.According to police, the victims were activists of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat who were identified as Umar Haq Nawaz, Abdul Shakoor alias Sajid, Asadullah and Imran.The enraged mob burnt tyres and blocked Haq Nawaz Jhangvi Road and broke windscreens of a police van by pelting stones.On the other hand, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat has announced to observe mourning day on Tuesday and protest day on Friday.Funeral prayers of two deceased were offered and their dead bodied were sent to Muzaffargarh and Bahawalpur for burial.In another incident of target killing, a local office bearer of a religious party namely Usman was shot dead in Sector 5-J of New Karachi. Tension erupted in the area and exchange of firing started between two groups and another man was injured.Meanwhile, some enraged persons attacked an office of a religious party and torched furniture and other items.In another incident, a policeman namely Jameel was shot dead in Ghaziabad area of Mochko while Salman who was injured in firing died in hospital during treatment.Meanwhile, some unknown miscreants attacked a shop with hand grenade in Nippier area and injured two people. Panic and fear spread in the area after the incident and shops and business were closed.

Pakistani mother, four children killed in British house fire Posted: A Pakistani mother and four of her children were killed Monday in a suspected arson attack on their home outside London, police said.Sabah Usmani and her sons Sohaib, 11, and Rayan, six, as well as 12-year-old daughter Hira, died in in their end-of-terrace home in Harlow, Essex, in what firefighters described as harrowing scenes.A third son, Muneeb, nine, died in hospital while Maheen, a three-year-old girl, remains in a critical condition in a specialist burns unit.In the history of Essex Police, seldom has there been an incident of this gravity, in which five people, four of them children, have lost their lives, Assistant Chief Constable of Essex Police Gary Beautridge told a press conference.Detective Superintendent Rob Vinson said the police were investigating to see whether this fire was started deliberately.The childrens father Abdul Shakoor fought hard to save his family in appalling conditions, Beautridge said. Shakoor, who works as a doctor, was treated for minor injuries.Originally from Karachi, the family lived in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade before moving to Manchester and then the town of Harlow in Essex.Firefighters said some kind of fuel may have been used to ignite the house since the blaze spread so quickly, starting downstairs and soon reaching the family asleep upstairs.A burning car was also found near the house, and although it did not belong to the family, it too is being treated as arson.Police said the family may not have been the intended target of the attack.Parvez Hamid, 43, who knew the couple since they moved to Harlow, said: The Asian community is very tight-knit in this area and we are all in shock.Their children were so well behaved and I was always envious that mine werent the same, Hamid said.The childrens mother was also a doctor who stayed home to take care of her children.

ISESCO Award for Pakistani professor Posted: Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) of Islamic countries has awarded ISESCO Prize in Science and Technology 2012 to a Pakistani professor.Prof Dr Tasawar Hayat won the awarded in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics.The prize would be presented to Dr Tasawar Hayat at a special ceremony during the Islamic Conference of ministers of higher education in Sudan on November 20.

SIC train march reaches Rawalpindi Posted: The Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) train march against drone attacks and anti-Islam film, which started from Karachi, reached Rawalpindi on night between Monday and Tuesday.On arrival at the Rawalpindi Railway Station, Sunni Ittehad Council chairman Fazal Karim strongly condemned terrorist attack on Malala Yousufzai and asked the government to take action against terrorists.He termed the attack on Malala as un-Islamic and demanded of the government to start military operation against Taliban in North Waziristan.He also urged government to call a session of the Organisation of Islamic conference (OIC) in Pakistan over the issue of Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat (PBUH) and to resolve the issue by legislating against blasphemy.Hundreds of workers and supporters of SIC welcomed the march participants when it reached Rawalpindi Railway Station.

2 Americans win Nobel econ prize for match-making Posted: Two American scholars won the Nobel economics prize Monday for work on match-making how to pair doctors with hospitals, students with schools, kidneys with transplant recipients and even men with women in marriage.Lloyd Shapley of UCLA and Alvin Roth, a Harvard University professor currently visiting at Stanford University, found ways to make markets work when traditional economic tools fail.Shapley, 89, came up with the formulas to match supply and demand in markets where prices dont do the job; the 60-year-old Roth put Shapleys math to work in the real world.Unlike some recent Nobel prizes such as the Peace Prize that went to the embattled European Union last week this years economics award did not seem to send a political message.Its all about down-to-earth, highly useful stuff, said Robert Aumann, a professor at Jerusalems Hebrew University who won the 2005 economics Nobel. Were talking about the nitty-gritty of health care and education which medical students are assigned to which hospitals. Were talking about how to arrange donors of kidneys.Shapley made early theoretical inroads into the subject, using game theory to analyze different matching methods in the 1950s and 60s.In a groundbreaking 1962 paper, Shapley and the late David Gale looked at how to match 10 men and 10 women in perfectly stable marriages. They created a model in which no two people liked anyone else better than each other.While that may have had little impact on marriages and divorces, the elegant algorithm they developed has been used to better understand many different markets.Building on Shapleys work, Roth applied it decades later to the market for allocating doctors, creating an algorithm that led to the redesign of the National Resident Matching Program that pairs fourth-year medical students with hospitals.Before Roth, it was not unusual to not get any of your first three or four choices, said David Warsh, who follows university economists in his Economic Principals blog. After Roth hooked up this new algorithm, almost everyone got what they wanted.Roth also successfully applied the formula to New York Citys public schools, ensuring that fewer students ended up in schools that were not among their top choices. Now, noted Susan Athey, a Stanford University economist, there are school districts all over the country that are considering these matching procedures.The algorithm has also been used to match kidneys with patients who need transplants.Before Roth, there were no economists in that business at all, Warsh says. Hes really changed it and saved a lot of lives.Roth looks at cases where prices cant be used to match supply and demand. In some markets such as organ transplants society recoils at the notion of a product or service going to whoever can pay the highest price.Al has spent a lot of time studying markets where things dont work out, says Roths former student, Parag Pathak, now an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Its not like we could just buy and sell kidneys, and people cant buy their way into public schools. So standard economic models dont apply.Al Roth richly deserves this prize, agreed Daniel McFadden, a professor of health economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an imaginative inventor and doer, who has solved concrete, important resource-allocation problems.Prize committee member Peter Gardenfors said the winners work could also be applied to other areas, such as allocating housing to students or refugees.

Car bombs, shootings kill 8 in Iraq, officials say Posted: A string of insurgent attacks including three car bombs in an ethnically divided northern city killed eight people across Iraq on Tuesday, police said.Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, police commander of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, said back-to-back detonations of a parked car bomb and a roadside bomb in a parking lot near the provincial council building killed one civilian and injured 15.Another parked car bomb went off in a residential area in the same city and wounded five civilians, he added.A third car bomb struck a passing police patrol near Kirkuk, killing two policemen and wounding three others, according to Qadir.Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, is home to a combustible mix of Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Turkomen who all claim rights to the city.Earlier, gunmen in a speeding car attacked an Iraqi army check point in the city of Tuz Khormato outside Kirkuk, killing two soldiers and injuring two others, Qadir said. Tuz Khormato is located 130 miles (210 kilometers) north of Baghdad.Meanwhile, police said gunmen fatally shot two brothers who are members of the anti-al-Qaida group known as Sahwa, after breaking into their house in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad.The Sahwa are Sunni Arabs who joined forces with U.S. military to fight al-Qaida at the highest of Iraqs insurgency. They have since been regularly targeted by Sunni insurgents who see them as traitors.In Baghdad, gunmen staged a drive-by shooting against a civilian car in a southern suburb, killing an army officer and wounding three others, according to police. A medical official confirmed the causalities.All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.The attacks came as the U.N. envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, arrived in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other officials to discuss the neighboring countrys worsening civil war. Brahimi is touring the region in an attempt to help resolve the Syrian crisis.Violence is down from 2006-2008 when Iraq seemed close to civil war, but deadly attacks still take place almost daily.

Bahrain summons Iran envoy over 'interference' Posted: Bahrain summoned Irans charge daffaires on Monday in protest at interference by Tehran in the internal affairs of the Gulf kingdom, the foreign ministry said.Tehrans envoy Mahdi Islami was summoned to address his countrys interference in the kingdoms internal affairs through deliberately attributing false information to Bahraini officials, the ministry said.Undersecretary Hamad al-Amer told Irans envoy that his countrys conduct incites sedition and sectarianism in Shiite-majority Bahrain which is ruled by the Sunni Al-Khalifa dynasty, it said.He also dismissed claims in Iranian media that Manama had requested Iranian mediation in domestic affairs as false.Any interference in Bahrains domestic affairs through mediation or other methods, as well as in dealing with its citizens, is unacceptable and would be an encroachment on its sovereignty and independence, he said.The protest followed a meeting between Irans representative and the spiritual leader of the Shiite opposition, Ayatollah Issa Qassem.The main Shiite opposition, Al-Wefaq, said in a statement that the meeting between Islami and Qassem took place in response to a Bahraini demand for mediation.Iran has been supportive of protests by Bahrains Shiite against the Saudi-backed monarchy, sparking a diplomatic crisis not only with the small kingdom but also with the areas economic powerhouse.Bahrain came under strong criticism from international human rights groups over last years crackdown on protests.An international panel commissioned by King Hamad to probe the governments clampdown found that excessive force and torture had been used against protesters and detainees.But it said there was no proof of a link between Iran and anti-regime protests last year.Bahrain, home to the US Fifth Fleet and strategically situated across the Gulf from Iran, has continued to witness sporadic demonstrations, mostly outside the capital Manama, since it crushed the protest movement in March 2011.

Matosevic shocks Haase in Vienna Posted: Australian Marinko Matosevic produced the shock of the first day of the ATP Austrian Open here on Monday as he beat Dutch sixth seed Robin Haase 1-6, 6-3, 6-2.Matosevics world ranking of 55 is the best of his career and the 27-year-old Aussie showed he means to hold onto it in his victory featuring five aces and four breaks of serve in 97 minutes.Gilles Muller of Luxembourg staged a fightback to overcome Belgiums Steve Darcis 6-7 (3/7), 6-4, 6-3 with the winner firing down 16 aces but needing almost two and a half hours to advance.Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, the top seed, is making a re-appearance after a month out with a left wrist injury, last playing in a Davis Cup semi-final loss to the Czech Republic in Buenos Aires.The Argentine is fighting this week for one of three remaining spots at the World Tour Finals which wrap up the season from November 5 in London.Del Potro lost the Vienna final last year to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and will hope to go a step further this week to help his cause.The provisional number seven in the London field is expected to duel with number nine rival Janko Tipsarevic, also in with a chance and seeded two here.Spains David Ferrer on Monday claimed the fifth place behind Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and the injured Rafael Nadal.

Safarova reaches 2nd round at Kremlin Cup Posted: Eighth-seeded Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic advanced to the second round of the Kremlin Cup on Monday by beating Russian wild-card entry Margarita Gasparyan 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.Safarova won five consecutive games in the first set, and then broke twice in the third before serving out the match at love.I met her (Gasparyan) for the first time and I didnt know whom I was playing against, Safarova said. She was serving very well while I was a little bit down in the second, allowing her to level. But I caught my tennis right away at the beginning of the third (set) to take the set and the match. Im happy to win tonight.In the second round, Safarova will face fellow Czech Klara Zakopalova, who beat Alexandra Cadantu of Romania 6-3, 6-3.Urszula Radwanska of Poland ousted 2009 champion Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-3, 6-1.Schiavone, the 2010 French Open winner, made an early break but lost 5 consecutive games to lose the first set. Radwanska won four straight games in the second set and closed out the match when Schiavone sent an easy forehand into the net.Radwanska will next play former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, who entered the event on a wild card.In the mens first round, sixth-seeded Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan rallied to beat German veteran Bjorn Phau 5-7, 7-5, 6-1. He will next face Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic, who ousted Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain 7-6 (9), 7-6 (2).The 43rd-ranked Istomin, who reached his second career final in San Jose in February, took a 5-0 lead in the third set and served out the match at love.Eighth-seeded Tatsumo Ito of Japan beat Roberto Bautista-Agut of Spain 6-3, 1-6, 6-2.Earlier, Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden marked her Kremlin Cup debut with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia.Samantha Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open Champion, is the top-seeded player in the womens draw, while Marion Bartoli of France is No. 2.Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine leads the mens field of the 23rd edition of the tournament. Andreas Seppi is seeded second.

FIFA makes key visit to Recife ahead of Confed Cup Posted: FIFAs inspection team is visiting Recife before deciding whether the northeastern Brazilian city will be included in next years Confederations Cup.Tuesdays visit comes less than a month before FIFA announces the final match schedule for the warm-up tournament next June.Recife is among the six venues initially selected, but its participation will only be ratified by showing significant improvement in its preparations.Local organizers said Monday they are confident that FIFAs team of technical inspectors will like what they see during the inspection.Also Tuesday, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke will begin a tour of World Cup host cities Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. He will attend a board meeting of the local organizing committee in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.

Jockey Richard Hughes wins 7 races in 1 day Posted: Irish jockey Richard Hughes won seven of the eight races at Windsor Racecourse on Monday, a feat that commanded odds of 10,168-1.Bookmaker Paddy Power says Hughes cost the firm about 750,000 pounds ($1.2 million), with one person winning 85,000 pounds ($136,400).Its great to do it. I always said I might do it one day at Windsor, my lucky track, Hughes told the At The Races television channel. Without Richard Hannon I wouldnt be doing any of it. Every day my kid, Harvey, says, How many winners today? Six or seven? I tell him I wont ride that many, but I have today... what a thrill.Hughes won the first race on 13-8 joint-favorite Pivotal Movement and the second with 5-2 favorite East Texas Red, with both horses trained by father-in-law Richard Hannon.Further victories came on Embankment (7-1), Magic Street (4-1 favorite) and Links Drive Lady (5-2 favorite).After finishing third on Ever Fortune, Hughes was back in winning form half an hour later on Duke Of Clarence (7-4 favorite) before rounding off an unforgettable day on Mama Quilla (15-8).Jockey Frankie Dettori won seven out of seven races in one day at Ascot in 1996.That was probably the cheapest seven-timer ever for the bookies, said Kate Miller, a spokeswoman for bookmaker William Hill. The last time a high-profile jockey rode a big seven-timer it cost us 7 million pounds ($11.2 million), so were very grateful that Richard timed his on a quiet Monday.Well pay out around 100,000 pounds ($160,500) but the figure could easily have been 10 times that if hed chosen this Saturday instead.

Oil finishes virtually unchanged from Friday Posted: Earlier in the day, the focus was on weaker oil demand. Traders seemed to warm slowly to some positive U.S. economic news as the day went along. Higher U.S. stock prices may have also influenced the buying of oil.The Commerce Department said Monday that retail sales rose 1.1 percent last month. That follows a 1.2 percent increase in August. They were the largest gains in two years, driven by auto sales and the release of the iPhone5.The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average each rose about 0.7 percent.Benchmark crude finished down a penny at $91.85 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In London, Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, gained 79 cents to $114.40 a barrel.

Dollar rallies as US retail sales rise Posted: The Commerce Department said Monday that retail sales rose 1.1 percent in September to $412.9 billion.Its the latest sign that Americans are getting more confident about the economy. Last month, the unemployment rate fell below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years. Recent data has shown that the housing market is slowly recovering.The euro fell to $1.2941 late Monday from $1.2958 late Friday. The British pound fell to $1.6071 from $1.6073.Traders are looking ahead to a summit of European Union leaders in Brussels later this week. European leaders will be discussing developments of the regions financial crisis.The dollar rose to 78.70 Japanese yen from 78.38 Japanese yen and to 0.9340 Swiss franc from 0.9329 Swiss franc.The dollar fell to 97.86 Canadian cents from 97.97 Canadian cents.

EU tightens financial noose on Iran, Syria with new sanctions Posted: European Union foreign ministers on Monday agreed tough sanctions against Iran, aimed at forcing a breakthrough in talks on Tehrans nuclear programme, and also the regime in war-ravaged Syria.This is a sign of our resolve, said British Foreign Secretary William Hague of the Iran package. That we will step up the pressure, we will intensify the pressure and we will continue to do so over the coming months unless negotiations succeed.The new package targets EU dealings with Irans banks, shipping and gas imports. Details on those targeted will be released Tuesday but a government minister is on the new blacklist, diplomats said.Washington welcomed the accord as further strengthening international efforts to pressure and isolate the Iranian government.Rallying the world to isolate Iran and increase the pressure on its leadership so that they stop pursuing a nuclear weapon has been a top priority under President Barack Obama, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.Iran is still playing for time despite intensive efforts for negotiation in recent months, said German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle.We dont see sufficient willingness so far for substantial talks about the nuclear programme, he added.Citing serious and deepening concerns over Irans nuclear drive, a statement approved by the ministers said the EU had agreed additional restrictive measures in the financial, trade, energy and transport sectors.It condemned Irans continuing production of enriched uranium and said Tehran was in flagrant violation of its international obligations by refusing to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Parents keep son's body in freezer for six years Posted: The father, Tian Xueming, of a small city outside Chongqing said that he refuses to put his son in a grave as having him in the nearby freezer makes him feel like his son never left, said the Daily Mail.According to Asia One, the father said: When my wife and I want to talk to him we can just pull up some chairs, lift the lid and chat to him as if he had never been taken from us.Xueming even set up a generator for instances of power outages - a common occurrence in the region.Having lost their first daughter when she was 15, their son was all they had left, they said.Yet, their son fell ill with leukemia shortly after he entered college.We were devastated. We visited many doctors but there was nothing else we could do, said the father, according to the Daily Mail.I just prayed we would not lose him.

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