Deal to save India's cheap car plant

One million evacuated in floodsNEARLY a million people have been evacuated in India's Bihar state where a rain-swollen river burst its banks three weeks ago and swamped hundreds of villages.

HUGE explosions have been heard in a Pakistani village close to the Afghan border where a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located, witnesses say.Blasts rock Taliban stronghold

'Poison brolly' case closedBULGARIA is closing its probe into the Cold War murder of dissident Georgi Markov in London, but no evidence exists to back up the theory he was stabbed with a poison-tipped umbrella.