BANGALORE - INDIAN police on Friday rounded up members of a Hindu extremist group who had allegedly threatened to marry off young couples found together on Valentine's Day.

Pramod Mutalik, the head of the Sri Ram Sena (SRS) or Lord Ram's Army, and some of his followers were taken into preventive custody, the police chief of Karnataka state's Gulbarga district, B.A. Padmananaina, told AFP.

BEIJING - CHINA'S news censors will create a new 'black list' to force out reporters found breaking rules, an official news agency said on Friday, adding to the wary government's tools for media control.

BEIJING - THREE Chinese men crashed a car into the main gate of the massive new US embassy in Beijing last month, causing significant damage, an embassy spokesman said on Friday.