NEW DELHI - THREE cranes crashed Monday while trying to lift a steel girder that fell at a New Delhi metro rail construction site, a new setback for the landmark project a day after another accident killed six people there.

Six people sustained minor injuries in Monday's accident, Delhi Metro spokesman Anuj Dayal said.

BEIJING - POLICE shot dead two Uighurs on Monday in renewed unrest in China's far north-western region of Xinjiang, state radio said.

The incident happened as frightened Urumqi residents watched earlier on Monday as police in bulletproof vests carrying pistols, shotguns and batons chased down a man and kicked and beat him, shattering a relative calm in the tense city in western China.

TAIPEI - A TAIWAN court on Monday turned down detained former president Chen Shui-bian's bail application for a third time, saying he could try to flee the island.

Judges of the Taipei District Court decided to keep to their previous rulings as 'the charge against Chen is a felony... and he may flee', court spokesman Huang Chun-ming told reporters.