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Air Force Col. Roger Williams Jr., an instructor pilot with the 156th Airlift Squadron, North Carolina Air National Guard, skirts above the treetops at about 150 feet in a C-130 Hercules aircraft as he locks in on a U.S. Forest Service lead plane during wildland fire suppression training mission in Pisgah National Forest, N.C., May 9, 2012. The aircraft Williams flew was equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System II, a tanking system that can hold up to 3,000 gallons of retardant or water used to create firebreaks during aerial wildfire suppression. MAFFS pilots follow lead planes as a guide to aid them with where to lay these firebreaks for maximum effectiveness.

Sixteen Kyrgyz nationals were killed and several others injured in a traffic accident in Kazakhstan in the early hours of Tuesday, the country's ministry of emergency said.

Three people were killed and around 40 injured in a powerful bomb blast Tuesday at a crowded railway platform shortly after the Awami Express travelling from Karachi to Peshawar arrived at the Lahore railway station.

Eight people, including opposition Senator Gerald Ortiz, were killed in two separate plane crashes in Bolivia, officials said.

Going for gold: Female runners at Mogadishu's shelled-out Konis Stadium

Militant and other prisoners have escaped from a Pakistan jail in Bannu, in the north west of the country.

Cholera patients being treated by Cuban and MSF doctors in the Artibonite region of Haiti

A stillborn baby girl in Argentina was discovered breathing 12 hours after she was buried in a coffin.

Suicide bombers struck in western and southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 39 others, including women and children, according to Defence Ministry spokesman General Zahir Azimi.

A manufacturer of hand grenades in Karachi has approached the court over possibly missing stock after he learnt that they may have been used in the Mumbai and Bangladesh terror attacks.