BEIJING - A GROUP of 52 British students and their teachers have been quarantined by Chinese authorities after four students tested positive for H1N1 flu, the British Council said on Saturday.

BEIJING - AN OFFSHOOT of a secessionist group with ties to Al-Qaeda is threatening revenge for the deaths of Muslim Uighurs in clashes with Chinese earlier this month, a US group that monitors militant Web sites said.

The Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group said a video released this week by the Turkistan Islamic Party condemned the July 5 violence between Chinese and Uighurs in the Xinjiang region which stemmed from a brawl between the two sides in southern China in June.

ISLAMABAD - THE trial in Pakistan of the five accused of involvement in last year's terror attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai has been adjourned until next week, the defence lawyer said on Saturday.