ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has released a total of 562 Indian nationals from the country's prisons since 2009, a federal minister told the national assembly.

TORONTO - In a story that reads like a spy thriller, a young Chinese fooled customs and security at Hong Kong airport last week to board an Air Canada flight faking as an elderly white man and land in Vancouver to seek asylum.

Rome, Nov 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) About 50 people, including several children, were injured after a fire broke out in a children's hospital in Rome. No casualties have been reported.

BOGOTA - Nearly two million children are working as child labourers in Colombia and about 19,000 of them are involved in prostitution, a media report said.

SINGAPORE - It was coincidence that on consecutive days Qantas passenger jets experienced engine problems that forced them to return to Singapore shortly after take-off, the Australian airline said Saturday.