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India test fires nuclear-capable missile (Mon, 23 Nov 2009)
BHUBANESWAR: India carried out a night-time test of a nuclear-capable, medium-range ballistic missile off its eastern coast on Monday, a defence official said. The surface-to-surface Agni-II, which can deliver a nuclear warhead to targets within a range of 2,500 kilometres (1,560 miles), was fired from a mobile rail launcher on Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa state at 7:50pm (1420 GMT). "It was a user training trial to handle the missile at night," the defence official told a foreign news agency on condition of anonymity. The Indian-developed 20-metre-long missile, which has a launch weight of 16 tonnes, is capable of carrying a one-tonne conventional or nuclear warhead. The missile is one of a series being developed by India''s Defence Research Development Organisation as part of the country''s deterrent strategy against nuclear-armed neighbours China and Pakistan. India already has the 3,000-kilometre range Agni-III missile -- the longest in the Agni series -- which can also carry conventional or nuclear payloads. Unconfirmed reports suggest India is also building an Agni variant with a range of 5,000 kilometres. The Agni-I missile has a strike range of 1,500 kilometres.
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Tom Cruise movie halted after bulls rampage set (Mon, 23 Nov 2009)
MADRID: Two women were slightly hurt on Sunday when they were struck by bulls that escaped the set of a new film that stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, local police and officials said. The seven bulls roamed loose on the narrow streets of Cadiz in southern Spain for about 40 minutes before they were recaptured on a beach, a local police spokesman told the Europa Press news agency. Filming of "Knight and Day" -- an action comedy directed by James Mangold and scheduled to be released in the US in July 2010 -- was suspended by the mayor''s office after the incident. "Nothing will be filmed in Cadiz until we have a new plan that guarantees the safety of local residents," a spokesman for the mayor of Cadiz told the Diario de Cadiz newspaper. The film''s Spanish producer Calle Cruzada said he did not know how the bulls managed to escape. Rehearsals started Monday for scenes that imitate the famous bull run held each year in Pamplona, northern Spain. Cruise and Diaz are not expected to arrive in Cadiz until next weekend. Last week CAS International, Europe''s largest anti-bullfighting organisation, urged opponents of the ritual to write to the two Hollywood starts to ask them to reconsider their participation in the film. "Apart from the fact that bulls are abused for this movie, we also fear that after seeing this movie, even more American and other tourists will participate in the bull runs in Pamplona and elsewhere in Spain," it said in a statement. The Pamplona bull run is held in the city each July and was made famous by Ernest Hemingway''s 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises". During the run, crowds race ahead of a pack of thundering bulls, which can weigh up to 700 kilogrammes (1,500 pounds) along an 825 metre (900 yard) course over cobbled streets to the town bullring where the animals are killed by matadors later in the day.
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