ANKARA: At least 38 people are reported to have been killed in an earthquake in eastern Turkey.The government’s crisis centre says many of the victims were from the small villages of Okcular, Yukari Kanatli and Kayali, where the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 flattened stone or mud-brick houses and minarets of mosques.

Some 60 people were reported injured.

TV reports said the dead included four young sisters trapped in the rubble in their sleep.

Rescue workers were trying to pull out one other people from debris in Okcular village.

The Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory said the quake in Elazig province happened at 4:32 am (0232 GMT) on Monday and was centred near the village of Basyurt.

It was followed by some 20 aftershocks, the strongest measuring 4.1.

LAHORE, Pakistan News: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif met with Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the Army House in Rawalpindi today.

Chief Minister Shahbaz and General Kayani exchanged views about army’s cooperation to enhance the professional capabilities of Punjab Police in tackling terrorism.

The meeting also reviewed the ongoing training courses at Elite Forces’ regional centers with the help of army.

In addition, they also evaluated the possible threats being faced by installation of sensitive agencies.

After the meeting, CM Shahbaz told media at Islamabad airport he thanked COAS over army’s cooperation in extending training for Punjab police.

He said army’s training will help Punjab police counter terrorism in professional and in a much better way.

The meeting also reviewed ongoing projects of FWO and NLC in Punjab, he added.

WASHINGTON: University of Alabama Huntsville Shooting, Three people were killed Friday in a shooting at a university in the southern US state of Alabama and the shooter was in custody, a college spokesman said.

The incident happened at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the spokesman said on a television that police were sweeping the building.

“At this point we have three dead, three confirmed people who are dead. We have one injured. The police have secured the building, the shooter is in custody,” said the spokesman, who was not named.

He added police were “sweeping the building to both look to see if there are other victims as well as to get evidence.”

Latest updates about Fort Hood Victims List :- Here you can finf Fort Hood Victims list with names draw from various media reports.

Names of the victims wounded during the Fort Hood shooting.
Chief Warrant Officer Chris Birmingham of Eclectic, Ala.
Sgt. Patrick Blue III, 23, of Belcourt, N.D.
Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake, Wis.
Keara Bono Torkelson, 21, of Ostego, Mo..
Alan Carroll, 20, of Bridgewater, N.J.,
U.S. Army Reserve Dorothy “Dorrie” Carskadon of Rockford, Ill.
Staff Sgt. Joy Clark, 27, of Des Moines
Spc. Matthew Cook, 30, of Binghamton, N.Y.
Staff Sgt. Chad Davis of Eufaula, Ala.,
Pvt. Joey Foster, 21, of Ogden, Utah,
Cpl. Nathan Hewitt, 26, of West Lafayette, Ind.
Justin Johnson, 21, of Punta Gorda, Fla.
Staff. Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, of Richmond County, N.C.
Shawn Manning, 33, formerly of Redman, Ore.
Army 2nd Lt. Brandy Mason, of Monessen
Reserve Spc. Grant Moxon, 23, of Lodi, Wis
Sgt. Kimberly Munley, 34, of Killen.
Warrant Officer Christopher Royal of Elmore County, Ala.
Maj. Randy Royer of Dothan, Ala.
Pvt. Raymondo “Ray” Saucedo, 26, of Greenville, Mich.
George Stratton III, 18, of Post Falls, Idaho
Patrick Zeigler, 28, of Orange County, Fla.

DEAD during the Fort Hood shooting.

Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Cameron
Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Plymouth, Ind.
Reservist John Gaffaney, 56, of Serra Messa, Calif.
Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Tipton, Okla.
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis.
Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah
Pfc. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Ill.
Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis.
Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago
Military physician assistant Juanita Warman, 55, of Pittsburgh
Spc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn.

SEATTLE : Lakewood Police Department Washington,  Four police officers were gunned down in an execution-style ambush at a coffee shop in Washington on Sunday, triggering a manhunt for a convicted armed robber with a history of violence.

Pierce County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ed Troyer said the victims were sitting at a table in the cafe before their shift when a lone gunman entered and started shooting at around 8:15 am (1615 GMT) local time.

“We have somebody out there who blatantly went in and opened fire on four police officers, killing all four of them,” Troyer said following the shooting near McChord Air Force base in Tacoma, south of Seattle.

Late Sunday the identities of the victims — who were all wearing uniform including bulletproof vests at the time of the attack — were released.

The dead were named as Sergeant Mark Renninger, 39, Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42. All of the officers were married with children, police said.

Troyer said the officers, from nearby Lakewood Police Department, had been specifically targeted, noting that staff and customers at the coffee shop had not been shot at. “This was more of an execution. Walk in with the specific mindset to shoot police officers.”

The suspected gunman was described as a “black male in his 20s or 30s” Troyer told reporters. “He walked in with a handgun, opened fire multiple times and fled the scene,” he said.

Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said later Sunday they were seeking Maurice Clemmons, 37, for questioning as a “person of interest in the case.”

According to reports, Clemmons has a long criminal history including five felony convictions in Arkansas and several felony charges in Washington.

He had been in jail in Pierce County for several months until recently pending a charge of second-degree rape of a child.

According to the Seattle Times, Clemmons served only a fraction of a 35-year prison term in Arkansas before his sentence was controversially commuted by the state’s then Governor Mike Huckabee, who mounted an unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

Troyer earlier told King 5 local television that one of the mortally wounded officers may have traded fire with the gunman.

“There is evidence that a Lakewood Police officer fired off some shots and we hope that he hit him,” Troyer said. “If he’s hit, that means that he’s injured somewhere with a gunshot wound.”

Troyer said local hospitals had been alerted in case the suspect sought medical attention.

Police set up tiplines and offered a 10,000-dollar reward for anyone with information about those responsible for the shooting.

Around 200 officers from different law enforcement agencies were involved in the hunt for the shooting suspect late Sunday, police said.

“We have no motive at all,” Troyer told King 5. “I don’t think when we find out what it is, it will be anything that makes any sense or be worth it.”

Washington Governor Chris Gregoire voiced his shock at the shootings, which local media said was the worst single loss of life involving law enforcement officers in state history.

“I am shocked and horrified at the murder of four police officers this morning in Pierce County,” Gregoire said.

Angelina Jolie, DiCaprio to Work Together, Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie are in talks to play the king and queen of the dynasty of the Gucci fashion director Ridley Scott’s new movie.

Jolie is set to play Patrizia Reggiano, the former wife of Maurizio Gucci, who was sentenced to 29 years in prison for conspiring to murder the fashion guru.

Lockerbie Plane Crash,

Abdel Baset Al Megrahi, Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go home to die despite American pleas to show no mercy for the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people.

The White House declared it “deeply” regretted the Scottish decision as Abdel Baset al-Megrahi left Greenock Prison and flew to Libya on an Airbus dispatched to Glasgow Airport, still insisting he was innocent.

Al-Megrahi, who had served only eight years of his life sentence, was recently given only months to live after being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.

Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said although al-Megrahi had not shown compassion to his victims – many of whom were American college students flying home to New York for Christmas – MacAskill was motivated by Scottish values to show mercy.