10 killed, 20 injured in bomb blast in Khyber Agency of NW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: At least ten people were killed and 20 others injured in a bomb blast on Friday morning in Khyber agency of northwest Pakistan, reported local media.

4 NATO containers torched in Quetta, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Four NATO supply containers were completely destroyed after they were set on fire by unknown miscreants in Quetta, a capital city of Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan, reported local media The News on Friday.

According to the report, the attack took place late Thursday night when some unidentified gunmen fired at the containers parked nearby a hotel on National Highway in Mach locality of tehsil Bolan in Quetta city.

The NATO containers were attacked on its way to Afghanistan en- route Quetta from Karachi.

No people were injured in the attack, the report quoted police sources as saying, adding that the fire tenders were called in to quench the fire after the attack was reported.

Thursday's attack on NATO supply convoy is the third of its kind over the last three consecutive days. Prior to this, two attacks were reported respectively on Wednesday and Thursday, in which at least four NATO supply vehicles carrying oil and other goods for NATO troops in Afghanistan were destroyed.
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Genes predict Who lives forver

By: S A Sagar

Genetic variants play a critical and complex role in predicting exceptionally long lives, says a study. Well, surely none from this planet, but according to Friday's isssue of the journal science, scientists have discovered a certain pattern of genes that gives an accurate prediction on who might live a longer life.

Paola Sebastiani and Dr. Thomas Perls, who leads a research team at Boston University, have revealed that they have identified a set of genetic variants that's capable of predicting a 77-percent accuracy of extreme logevity.