DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “British brothers get gold and bronze at Beijing triathlon worlds” plus 9 more

BEIJING, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- British brothers Alistair Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee harvested the first and third places at ITU World Championship Grand Final men's elite group here on Saturday.

As the final stage of the ITU World Championship Series, the Beijing event attracted nearly all the top-level triathlon athletes all around the world.

No athlete established a clear lead in swimming or cycling. Alistair and Jonathan, who stayed 1-2 on the current world rankings, steered for the top two places when they spurted out of the main group in the first lap. After three laps, Jonathan was left behind by his brother.

Alistair clocked 1:48:06 to finish with the gold, while Jonathan was surpassed by Swiss star Sven Riederer in the last few hundred meters, and finally got a bronze. Riederer turned out to be the silver medalist.

"Last time I came to Beijing it was really hot, so it's great to have a totally different weather today," said Alistair about the rainy and cool weather on Saturday.

"Very glad to win the competition, I'm looking forward to next year's London Olympics," added the current world number one. "I and my brother compete almost every day, and I think it's a healthy competition."

Former European junior champion Jonathan, who was listed right behind his elder brother on the world rankings, was a freshman on men's elite group.

"It's my second world championships," said Jonathan. "The Olympics? It's a long season, so I'm really not sure about it."

Local athlete Bai Faquan found himself the last finisher after he completed his first world championship race with nearly two hours.

"It's great for me to compete with the world class athletes," said Bai. "My main goal is to learn something from them."

JERUSALEM, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Israel's ambassador to Egypt and some 80 diplomats were evacuated early Saturday morning after Egyptian protesters raided the Israeli embassy in Cairo, local media reported overnight.

The Israeli ambassador Yitzhak Levanon, with his staff and their families, had left Egypt aboard an Israeli military aircraft, the Ynet news site reported. The aircraft landed on a military base in Israel around 4 a.m. local time (GMT 0200) following the emergent evacuation, a local source told Xinhua.

Friday's clashes outside the Israeli embassy continued into the night. The diplomats were transferred to the airport in a secret operation under tight security.

One diplomat was left behind to maintain the embassy, who was identified as the consul for state affairs and deputy ambassador and would remain in Egypt while Israel weighs a response to the overnight demonstrations, the Jerusalem Post quoted an official as saying.

"Of course we're trying to take our people out of danger," Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told Xinhua early Saturday. "We're still monitoring the situation and trying to work through it by any possible channels," he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefed U.S. President Barack Obama overnight on the embassy attack in Cairo, while Defense Minister Ehud Barak urged his U.S. counterpart to pressure Egyptian authorities to protect the Israeli embassy.

Tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets on Friday to demand more reforms. Several thousands of them gathered in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo to protest against the killing of five Egyptian soldiers by Israeli forces at the border area on Aug. 18.

A protestor took down the Israeli national flag on the top of the building after other demonstrators destroyed a section of a concrete wall that protects the building.

ZANZIBAR, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- More than 345 people are feared dead when a passenger and cargo ship with over 600 aboard capsized overnight between two islands in Zanzibar, the semi-autonomous republic of Tanzania, a local official said Saturday.

The ship was travelling Friday night from Zanzibar to Pemba, the sister island 40 km away, when it capsized at Nungwi area, making it the worst of its kind in the history of Zanzibar.

According to Zanzibar Deputy Minister of Communication and Infrastructure Issa Haji Ussi, 250 people have been so far rescued out of the over 600 people onboard.

Rescue is underway with the help of some fishing boats in that area while the bodies retrieved are being brought to Zanzibar National Ground where relatives of the victims went to identify them.

Reports said the cause of the accident is due to overload of passengers and cargo, but other reports said technical fault cannot be ruled out at this stage.

Zanzibar government has termed the accident, the worst of its kind, as disaster for the whole nation.

Maritime accidents are not uncommon in this area due to billowy waves and overloading. Commuters between the two islands complained that the ferries are always in poor condition and overloaded.

A previous report said the government in Zanzibar had promised to invest in bigger vessels to ferry passengers between the two island.

MOSCOW, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Russia's armored units will begin receiving new-generation main battle tanks in 2014, the Defense Ministry said Saturday.

Without specifying the model of the new tanks, ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Sergei Vlasov told reporters they would replace the country's current tank fleet over a six-year span, ending 2020.

According to Russian media, the new-generation tanks may include two models, tentatively dubbed the T-95 and the T-99, presumedly with better firepower, maneuverability, electronics and armor protection than the T-90 tanks.

Currently, the Russian Ground Forces are equipped with T-72, T-80 and T-90 main battle tanks and their variants.

NEW DELHI, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday stressed on the need to strengthen the country's intelligence gathering mechanism in the wake of the blast outside the Delhi High Court which killed 13 people and injured more than 90.

"The recent blasts show there can be no let-up in our vigilance. We must strengthen our investigative agencies and upgrade our intelligence gathering apparatus," the Indian PM told a gathering of state chief ministers and leaders of many political parties in the national capital.

He also stressed, "we need to combat divisive forces and the radicalization of youth," apparently referring to the attempt by some militant groups to teach radical ideas to India's Muslim youth.

Singh's remarks came just three days after the blast outside the Delhi High Court, a second terror attack within two months after a triple bombing rocked Mumbai on July 13, killing 19.

The PM reiterated that terrorism and left-wing rebels' violence were the two major challenges facing the country, saying everyone must unequivocally send out a message that pursuit of violence cannot be justified under any circumstances and reaffirm the collective resolve to fight the menace of terrorism.

"The terrorist attack in Delhi last Wednesday is a stark reminder to us that we can not let up our vigilance," he said.

The PM added, "our nation has been subjected to terrorist violence again. Terrorist seek to justify such violence based on misplaced sense of ideology."

He also said, no civilized society could tolerate or endorse loss of innocent lives in pursuit of any ideology, and the country 's democratic polity offered sufficient opportunities for articulating different views without resorting to violence.

BEIJING, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- This Sunday will mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Following are the major terror attacks worldwide since then.

July 22, 2011 -- Up to 76 people were killed and more than 80 others injured in a bombing in Oslo, Norway, and a shooting rampage on the nearby island of Utoya.

May 10, 2010 -- Bombers and gunmen killed 114 people in a wave of attacks on markets, a textile factory, checkpoints and other sites across Iraq.

Oct. 25, 2009 -- Two suicide bombs tore through downtown Baghdad, killing at least 132 people.

Nov. 26-27, 2008 -- Armed terrorists launched coordinated attacks in Mumbai, India, killing at least 195 people, including the head of Mumbai's anti-terrorist squad.

Oct. 19, 2007 -- Suicide attacks on a rally of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed 140 people. Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan People's Party, survived the attack but died in an explosion in her election rally on Dec. 27.

Aug. 14, 2007 -- Coordinated suicide bomb attacks in northern Iraq killed at least 500 people.

April 18, 2007 -- A series of bombings and attacks across Iraq killed more than 230 people, nearly 190 of them die in Baghdad.

Nov. 23, 2006 -- A series of apparently coordinated bombings killed at least 200 people in Sadr city in eastern Iraq.

July 11, 2006 -- A series of powerful bombs ripped through crowded commuter trains in Mumbai, India, killing at least 190 people.

Sept. 14, 2005 -- Four suicide car bombings rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing at least 114 people.

July 7 and July 21, 2005 -- Explosions in London Underground trains and a bus killed 56 people and injured more than 700 others.

Feb. 28, 2005 -- Some 125 people are killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Hilla.

Sept. 1, 2004 -- More than 1,000 people were taken hostage by terrorists at a school in the town of Beslan of North Ossetia in Russia. At least 333 people died.

March 11, 2004 -- At least 198 people were killed in commuter train bombings in Madrid, Spain.

March 2, 2004 -- A total of 271 people were killed in a series of terrorist explosions in two mosques of Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims in Baghdad and Karbala.

Aug. 29, 2003 -- Two car bombs detonated outside the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq, killed over 100 people, including Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, a Shi'ite spiritual leader.

Aug. 19, 2003 -- A bombing of the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, the UN headquarters in Iraq, killed 24 people, including UN Special Representative in Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello.

Oct. 23, 2002 -- Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater and took about 800 people hostage, 120 of whom were killed.

Oct. 12, 2002 -- A series of bombings targeting foreign tourists on the Indonesian island of Bali killed 202 people.

ZANZIBAR, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- More than 345 people are feared dead when a passenger and cargo ship capsized overnight between two islands in Zanzibar, the semi-autonomous republic of Tanzania.

The ship was travelling Friday night from Zanzibar to Pemba, the sister island when it capsized at Nungwi area.

According to Zanzibar Deputy Minister of Communication and Infrastructure Issa Haji Ussi, 250 people have been so far rescued out of the over 600 people on board.

Rescue efforts are continuing while the bodies retrieved are being brought to Zanzibar National Ground to enable the people who have lost their relatives, to identify them.

Reports said the cause of the accident is due to overload of passengers and cargo, but other report said technical fault cannot be ruled out at this stage.

Zanzibar government has termed the accident, the worst of its kind, as disaster for the whole nation.

GUIYANG, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Four people died and another nine were injured after a wall collapsed on Friday evening in Kaiyang County in southwest China's Guizhou Province, said county government authorities Saturday.

At about 6 p.m. Friday, an excavator attempted to park, but collided with the wall of a primary school. The wall collapsed, injuring thirteen people at an outdoor banquet in a residential area, authorities said.

Four people died after rescue efforts failed and nine, including three in critical condition, are still in the hospital.

The investigation into the accident is underway.