Late Pakistan train escapes bomb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3598504.stm
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A Pakistani express train narrowly escaped disaster in a bombing because it was running late, police say.
The blast near the north-western town of Nowshera destroyed some 200m of track and left a crater a metre deep.
Police say the unidentified attackers timed the device to go off at 1930 local time (1430 GMT) on Tuesday.
The packed Peshawar-bound passenger train from Quetta in the south-west should have been passing by just then, but was 10 minutes behind schedule.
The train, with capacity for 350 people, was full.
Trains in Pakistan have a habit of running late, which this time proved lucky for the passengers, a BBC correspondent in the region says.
Italy island sees wave of migrants
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/25/italy.immigration.reut/
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ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- Two-hundred and seventy-five illegal immigrants have landed on the small southern Italian island of Lampedusa, police said, the largest ever to arrive there on a single vessel.
The latest in a wave of summer arrivals reached shore on Tuesday a day before Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi flies to Libya to discuss ways of stemming illegal migration and cracking down on human trafficking with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
It was not immediately clear from where the latest batch of immigrants had come but in the past many of them have left on boats from north Africa.
Police on the island south of Sicily said the immigrants arrived on a 20-meter-long (yard) fishing boat and were taken to a processing center there.
About 250 other illegal immigrants are already at the center waiting to be transferred to the mainland while their cases are reviewed. Most are sent back home.
Italy believes many illegal immigrants set sail from Libya and is seeking a deal with Tripoli to try to stem the flow.