SYDNEY - A construction worker at Caringbah in Sydney's south survived a fall off a five-storey building site by stroke of luck.

ISLAMABAD - A woman in Pakistan's Punjab province was beaten and tortured after she tried to take a shortcut through a local landlord's field without his permission, a media report said Saturday.

Mexico City, Jan 22 (IANS/EFE) Around 245 kg of opium gum worth over $12 million has been seized by the Mexican Army in the country's largest-ever seizure of the substance, officials said.

MUMBAI - Three fire engines were rushed to the Five Gardens area of Matunga in central Mumbai as a gas smell filled the area Saturday morning, officials said. The fire brigade officials were suspecting a gas leak.

ALIGARH - An arms cache was recovered from a unit illegally manufacturing firearms which was unearthed in this Uttar Pradesh city and three men were arrested for supplying these arms in various states, police said Saturday.