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An 82-year-old Sikh man who was brutally assaulted outside a Gurudwara in the US state of California in 2013 is still awaiting justice with a third delay in sentencing of the accused who reportedly mistook him to be a Muslim.

Harriette Thompson of Charlotte, North Carolina, completed Sunday's Rock 'n' Roll Marathon in San Diego in 7 hours, 24 minutes, 36 seconds. She was mobbed by well-wishers as she crossed the finish line.

Fifteen thousand of the books are set to be distributed for free from June 1 at schools in the cities of Lahore, Multan and Lodhran while some copies will be made available in book stores.

The Italian coastguard said it had coordinated the rescue of more than 3,300 migrants sailing across the Mediterranean Sea, but also found 17 corpses on several of the rickety boats.

The second most wanted man on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of Nazi war criminals - charged earlier in May by Russia with genocide - has died at age 93, his lawyer said.

National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said forensics experts were exhuming the suspected graves found at 28 vacated camps in the hilly jungle area on the border with Thailand where trafficking syndicates were known to operate.

If President Barack Obama or his predecessor thought fighting a war with coalition partners was hard, they might consider Osama bin Laden's frustrations.

Modi also released the book - "The Great Himalayan Climb" on this occasion.

The released material included a variety of declassified documents, a list of English language books recovered from the compound and material published by other militant groups.

The 32-year-old Samantha Lewthwaite is the widow of one of the London 7/7 suicide bombers, Germaine Lindsay.

Russia on Saturday lost a Mexican satellite on launch just hours after a glitch with a manoeuvre involving the International Space Station, the latest in a string of embarrassing failures for its troubled space programme.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his first visit to China, on Friday announced in Beijing that the second route for the Kailash-Manasarovar Yatra will become operational in June, allowing more Indians to undertake the pilgrimage.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 14th May, Thursday, arrived in President Xi Jinping's hometown Xi'an beginning his three-day visit to China.

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, visiting Dolakha district, said massive landslides made relief work difficult. "Still, we are fighting," he said.

Almost 24,000 classrooms were damaged or destroyed in the 7.8 magnitude quake that hit the country 12 days ago.

The 25 year old prisoner says the two female guards aged 32 and 38 has sexual relationship with him in a supply closet of the jail, according to a report by Mirror.