Briefly World

China: Second man executed for stabbing

BEIJING: China on Sunday executed a second man who stabbed 29 children and three teachers with a meat cleaver at a kindergarten last month in Jiangsu province. Xu Yuyuan,47,was reportedly executed by a firing squad,Xinhua reported.

Top kill fails,BP tries to plug well

ROBERT,Louisiana: BP is devising another mix of manoeuvers to fight the worst oil spill in US history,after declaring the failure of its top kill method. Six weeks after the catastrophe,BP said Saturday that top kill failed after engineers tried to overwhelm the crippled well with heavy drilling mud and junk 5,000 feet underwater.

Israel refuses to attend 2012 n-meet

JERUSALEM: Israel rejected a UN call to come clean about its secretive nuclear programme,calling it a flawed and hypocritical act that ignores the threat posed by Iran. Israel declared that it would not take part in a 2012 meet on establishing a nuclear-free West Asia an Arab initiative backed by top ally US and the 188 other signatories to the NPT.