BERLIN: Three suspected former guards of the Auschwitz death camp run by the Nazis during World War II have been arrested in southwestern Germany, the public prosecutor's office in Stuttgart said on Thursday.

CARACAS: Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators faced off in streets blocked by burning barricades in several provincial cities on Thursday as protests escalated against President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government.

 LONDON: The European Commission has dragged Britain to court for failing to deal with its air pollution.

NEW DELHI: Telangana crossed a major hurdle on the route to becoming India's 29th state with Parliament approving the bill to divide Andhra Pradesh in the face of repeated adjournments and continuous disruptions and sloganeering.

AHMEDABAD: Maya Kodnani (58), BJP ex-MLA from Gujarat convicted to 28 years of prison for involvement in 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre, was given electric shocks — considered the last line of treatment in major depressive disorder — on Thursday. Doctors said Kodnani has been showing severe suicidal tendencies and failed to respond to aggressive medicine treatment prompting them to consider giving electric shocks.

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which on Thursday filed a chargesheet against Indian Mujahideen's India operations chief Ahmed Zarar Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal and three others, has virtually given a clean chit to 2010 German Bakery blasts convict Mirza Himayat Baig.

CHENNAI: India's overworked captain MS Dhoni has finally got a much-needed rest.
A Grade 1 side-strain which the wicket-keeper-batsman suffered during the second Test against New Zealand has ruled the skipper out of the forthcoming Asia Cup starting in Bangladesh on February 25. A BCCI release said that Dhoni would be undergoing rehabilitation of 10 days, thus opening the door for Dinesh Karthik.

 CHENNAI: Virender Sehwag had a poor domestic season when he averaged less than 20 in seven games with only one half-century to his credit.

KIEV, Ukraine: The office of Ukraine's embattled president says he and leaders of the country's raging protests have called for a truce.

WASHINGTON: The Homeland Security Department has warned airlines that terrorists could try to hide explosives in shoes. It's the second time in less than three weeks that the government has issued a warning about possible attempts to smuggle explosives on a commercial jetliner.