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LAHORE, Pakistan—Explosions hit a federal police building and a residential area of the eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, police said.

One blast devastated the downtown police office, killing at least a dozen people, said Mohammed Afzal, a city police official. A second blast wounded several people in an upscale residential district, said Mohammed Abbas, another police official.

The cause of the explosions was not immediately clear.

Private TV footage showed the badly damaged facade of the police office, a large, multiple-story concrete building, with rubble scattered across an intersection. Flames shot up from part of the wreckage and several cars were damaged.

An ambulance wove through a crowd of hundreds of bystanders—some with torn clothes, others with minor wounds—stumbling away from the blast scene.

LAHORE, June 30: A bomb exploded outside a vegetable market on the western side of the Punjab provincial capital of Lahore today, injuring three people, police officials said.

Two unidentified men left a bag at the entrance to the vegetable market, asking the owner to keep an eye on it while they shopped nearby, sources said. Within minutes, the bomb hidden inside the bag exploded, police chief Ahmed Raza said. The owner of the vegetable market, Mohammed Ramazan, lost his right arm in the explosion and two customers were hurt, he said. In recent weeks, several bombs have rattled Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, which borders India. The government here has repeatedly accused Indian agents of planting the explosive devices in an attempt to destabilise Pakistan.

Meanwhile, in Karachi, gunmen shot dead three people including two activists of an Islamic fundamentalist party on Monday, raising the death toll in the day-long violence to 14, police and residents said. Police said the assailants, riding in acar, opened fire on activists of the youth wing of the Jamat-I-Islami (JI) when they were returning from their party office in the city’s eastern district of Gulshan Iqbal.

Two JI workers died and another was critically wounded. The body of the third victim in the drive by shooting could not be immediately identified.

The attack on the activists of the country’s most organised party was the first in the ongoing violence that has claimed more than 140 lives since last month.

I work in a bank located just near the High Court. We were in the office when suddenly I heard a big blast around 1145 am.

It was so loud that the building vibrated and I rushed to the window and saw a huge cloud of smoke. I was sure it was a bomb attack.

I rushed towards the High Court and was shocked to see a bunch of people lying on the roadside, most of them policemen, with many body parts scattered here and there.

We are afraid to come to work tomorrow

I was watching helplessly and wanted to approach the area to help but was stopped and returned to my office.

Everyone is confused and has no idea what is going to happen, we are afraid to come to work tomorrow.

The suspicion is getting worse and a lot of people my age think that the government should not support the war on terror.

Text of report by Dubai-based Geo News TV website on 4 March

Lahore: The death toll in four explosions at Pakistan Navy War College near Mall Road Underpass has increased to six with several injured in the incident.

The injured persons in the incident in Lahore being transported to hospitals via private vehicles and through Rescue 1122 ambulances. Ten persons among the injured said to be in a critical state.

The entry points of the college have been closed after the explosions and the media denied access in the premises.

The authorities have declared emergency in hospitals along with security high alert in the city.

According to sources the blasts were happened in a truck parked within the college. The blasts caused fire and clouds of smoke can be seen at the place.

Lahore official Muhammad Ejaz Mian has called the blasts a suicide attack.

Lahore, March 04: In yet another reminder of the growing anarchy in Pakistan, four blasts ripped through the parking lot of Naval Headquarters in Lahore on Tuesday killing at least eight people and injuring scores of others.

The blasts took place at around 1:15 PM (PST) within minutes of each other. Local authorities have confirmed that it was a suicide attack.

The explosives were loaded in a truck at the Mall Road, Navy War College. The body of the suicide bomber has also been identified as per local TV channels.

Pictures aired by Geo TV showed pools of blood in parking area. Panic stricken people were seen trying to flee to safety.

Police have cordoned off the area and prevented journalists from going to the site of the blasts. The forces also sealed off Mall Road, one of Lahore`s main commercial areas.

Ambulances were seen rushing to the site and the injured are being moved to the closest hospitals.

Armed Forces officers were receiving training at the HQ and seem to have been the likely target.

The Naval Headquarters, also known as the War College, is situated in high security area and is home to top bureaucrats, government and military officers. The institution conducts courses for senior naval officers, including those from foreign countries.

At least 15 people were killed and several injured in a blast at the office of Pakistan’s federal investigation agency in the eastern city of Lahore today, the city police chief said.

“The explosion took place in the premises of Federal Investigation Agency’s office, killing 13 people and injuring several others,” Lahore police chief Malik Muhammad Iqbal told AFP.

Iqbal said he could not immediately confirm the nature of the blast.

A second bomb went off in a residential neighbourhood about 10km away, killing two children, said a city administrator, Mian Ejaz.

Television channels showed footage of a partially collapsed four-storey building and piles of blackened wreckage. It was not clear if the footage was of the investigation agency building or of nearby structures.

Police cordoned off the area while emergency workers carrying stretchers scrambled over the rubble.

The explosion comes one week after two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a prestigious naval college in Lahore, killing at least five people and injuring 19, officials said.

Pakistan has been rocked by six major blasts since elections on February 18, posing a serious challenge to an incoming coalition government led by the parties of slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto and former premier Nawaz Sharif.

Pakistan has been combating an Islamist insurgency led by al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters since President Pervez Musharraf joined the US-led “war on terror” in 2001, but the violence has soared since the start of 2007.

Around 600 people have died since the start of this year in suicide attacks, roadside bombings and clashes, mainly along the Afghan border in troubled northwestern Pakistan but also in major cities.

Many of the attacks have targeted the armed forces, police and security forces.

The army’s top medical officer, Lieutenant General Mushtaq Baig, was killed in a suicide attack in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on February 25.

A blast went off in the Federal Investigation Agency office in Lahore killing at least 20 people and injuring several.

Latest reports suggest that number of casualties could go up as the building has been completely destroyed.

There is still confusion over the nature of the attack - whether its a bomb or a suicide attack.

Over 100 employees were in the building at the time of the blast, which also triggered fires in vehicles in the parking lot.

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Last night Google switched on what may be a feature marking an historical evolutionary point in the evolution of the most popular Internet search engine.

Within the Google Personalized Home Page facility, Google has in fact activated a full RSS aggregator, capable of bringing together on your private Google Home page any and all the feeds that you want to subscribe to.

It goes with it that for Google to make this possible, it is also capturing, indexing and tracking any and each of those RSS feeds, though what the most popular search engine is exactly going to do with that feed data is not yet visible to the public.

So in one shot Google opens up officially to full RSS adoption and use, launches an online RSS aggregator that is easy and functional to use and opens up the door for RSS feed submissions directly to its indexes.

The new Google Personalized Home page allows indeed easy addition of RSS feed URLs, though the interface isn’t as sleek and functional as the one from Microsoft Start, which I like so far the best.

With this move Google equalizes somehow the advantage that Yahoo and Microsoft had taken over it with earlier introductions of their Web-based RSS aggregators and officially steps into the RSS-fray for indexing and leveraging at some point or another the full cloud of RSS content that it will be collecting.

And for those of you interested in increasing the reach and visibility of your RSS feeds, you now have a fast, easy and direct way to submit your those feeds to Google itself.

While it is hard to say now how and when Google will start leveraging that RSS-based content to augment, expand and diversify its search capabilities, it is almost certain that at it will.

So, to make your blog and RSS feed part of this new Google index, head off to the Google Personalized Home page facility and follow this simple instructions:

a) If you don’t have a Google Account click here and create one now. (If you do just go to http://www.google.com/ig and log in)

b) Sign in on the Google Personalized Home Page.

c) Look at the left column and click on “Create a section“.

d) Input your RSS or Atom feed directly.

That’s all!

For now, the Google Personalized Home page displays only a the feed title (cut off to the first three words) and the titles (only) of the latest posts appearing in it.

Please test it out yourself, and let me have your feedback and insight.

N.B.: While testing further the new Google Personalized Home Page features, I also noticed that, nonetheless I do have a GMail account, I wasn’t able to make Google display a feed of the latest emails show up on this page. While I could have input the RSS feed that is generated by GMail accounts by default, I wanted to see whether there was any way to specify which GMail account I wanted to monitor. But, as it seems, I’ll have to wait for this.

For now Google only allows me to specify how many email messages I want to preview here, but gives me no option to specify my Gmail account.

An identical triplets were born to Allison Penn who currently employed as an education specialist at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, USA — an event so rare it might happen 1 in 200 million births according to an obstetrician estimate.

Tom and Allison Penn wanted a baby more than anything. Now they have three, all alike. The triplets, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn, born last Wednesday.

Miracle Babies

The babies, developed from a single egg and placenta, were given only a 30% chance of all three surviving by the first obstetrician consulted by the Patchogue, N.Y., couple, said Tom Penn, who called them “miracle babies.”

The triplets, carried to 35 weeks and weighing 4 pounds, 12 ounces (Logan); 4 pounds (Eli); and 4 pounds, 11 ounces (Collin) at birth, went home Sunday.

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Tom and Allison Penn wanted a baby more than anything. Now they have three, all alike.

The triplets, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn, born last Wednesday in North Shore University Hospital, faced a battery of TV cameras without a whimper Tuesday at a news conference at the hospital.

They are identical triplets, the first known to be born on Long Island in almost 15 years. Estimates on the odds of identical triplets being born range from one in every 60,000 births to one in 200 million births, said Dr. Victor Klein, who delivered the three boys.

The babies, developed from a single egg and placenta, were given only a 30% chance of all three surviving by the first obstetrician consulted by the Patchogue, N.Y., couple, said Tom Penn, who called them “miracle babies.”

Klein, who specializes in high-risk deliveries, gave them more confidence. This was his 161st delivery of triplets in 20 years, he said, but none of the previous sets were indisputably identical.

The couple, who had been trying for four years to have a baby, opted for an in-vitro procedure but hoped to avoid multiple births. There was no stopping the embryo from splitting once and then splitting again, however, and now they’re happy with their multiple sons, said Penn, 46, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where his wife, Allison, 31, also works as an environmental educator.

When told they would have triplets, the couple experienced “complete shock. We thought, ‘That’s not possible,’ ” Allison Penn said. “Then Tom started laughing and I started crying. . . . I was terrified.”

But she looked at ease Tuesday with a baby on each arm while her husband held the third.

Allison’s mother, Marianne McGuire, 64, of Manchester, N.J., is staying with them to help take care of the babies.

The triplets, carried to 35 weeks and weighing 4 pounds, 12 ounces (Logan); 4 pounds (Eli); and 4 pounds, 11 ounces (Collin) at birth, went home Sunday.