N Korea leader spent 9 years in Switzerland: papers

Zurich: North Korea's young leader Kim Jong-un spent more of his childhood being educated under a pseudonym in Switzerland than originally thought, Swiss newspapers reported on Sunday.

Jong-un first travelled to Switzerland in 1991, aged eight or nine, rather than in 1998 as has previously been established, Le Matin Dimanche and the SonntagsZeitung reported, citing official Swiss police documents.

Little is known about the leader of the reclusive communist state, who took over from the late Kim Jong-il last year, not even his exact age.

Local education director Ueli Studer told Reuters in December that a boy known as Pak Un, registered as the child of a North Korean embassy employee, had attended a school in Berne from 1998 until late 2000.

School friends have identified Pak Un as Kim Jong-un and Swiss newspapers say they have proven - through a scientific comparison of a school photo and current pictures of the North Korean leader - that the two were one in the same.

British woman forces son to live as prisoner

London: A woman in Britain has been found keeping her 10-year-old son locked up in a coal-bunker for over a year for being naughty or stealing food from the kitchen. His room had a soiled mattress, a dirty sleeping bag and a urine-filled potty.

The youngster slept in the padlocked outhouse every night and was imprisoned for hours at a time during the day if he misbehaved.

While the woman, in her 30s, and her partner, in his 40s, lived in comfort in the main house, a tiny window and a badly-wired lightbulb provided the boy light and he was often fed lumps of butter or raw meat in the tiny bunker, the Daily Mail reported.

Police described the conditions as "barbaric" after the boy's mother and her partner admitted to child cruelty in court.

Detective Constable Matt Normanton of the Lancashire Police, said he had never seen anything like it.

"The child was found to be kept in a cell, living in poor, inhumane conditions...It was smaller than a (police) cell. It was just big enough for a single mattress and a ceramic potty which was full of urine," he said.

Norway custody row: Court may send kids to India

Oslo: If all goes well for the Bhattacharya family, then a Norwegian court could send the two Indian children – Abhigyan and Aishwariya – with their uncle back home to India.

A court judgment in favour got a major boost last week when the Norwegian Child Welfare Services said it was in the best interest of the children if they returned to India.

The two children have been in the custody of the Child Welfare Services for nearly a year.

The authorities cited emotional disconnect between the parents and the children while taking custody of the children in May 2011.

The Indian government had then stepped in and diplomatic efforts were intensified. However, there was a setback when the parents said they were separating.

There was a further twist when the uncle then refused to take custody of the children. Finally the parents made a joint claim for custody to clear the matter

'Bahrain result massive boost for Force India'

Manama: Force India driver Paul Di Resta feels that his sixth place finish here in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix was a massive result for the Silverstone-based team.

Di Resta maximised an opportunistic two-stop strategy to finish sixth while his team-mate Nico Hulkenberg was 12th. For Force India it was an impressive result considering the fact that the team vehicle survived a fire-bomb during anti-government protests in the capital of the Gulf kingdom.

Di Resta said the two pit-stops worked wonders for the team.

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"The result today is massive for us. The team did an amazing job all weekend, the strategy came together and the pit-stops were perfect. We knew it would be a big ask to make only two stops and it was a close run thing at the end because my tyres completely went away on the final lap," he said.

Table tennis: Sharath misses out on Olympics berth

New Delhi: Achanta Sharath Kamal failed to seal the fifth Olympic qualifying spot at the Asian Qualification Table Tennis tournament in Hong Kong on Saturday but he still has a chance for a London Games berth.

Sharath Kamal lost 2-4 (12-10, 9-11, 9-11, 11-6, 8-11, 8-11) to Kim Song Nam of North Korea at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium. By losing the match to the North Korean, whom he had beaten earlier in group stages, the Indian made his job for qualifying much tougher as he will have to play two more matches and win them to fancy any chance of joining the Indian contingent to London.

Of the seven berths available at the qualifiers, six have already been grabbed and the lone seventh spot remains on offer. Sharath will have to bring in all his experience, first to beat the Chinese Taipei’s Wu Chi-Chi and then defeat the winner of the match between Jang Song Man of North Korea and Indian Soumyajit Ghosh.

If he does that, he will be the first Indian to make the Olympics grade for the third successive time. He had previously represented at both the Athens and the Beijing Games. Sharath, who was playing the fourth match of the day, had a mixed luck on Saturday. Before taking on Kim Song Nam, he played a tough match against world number one Ma Long and lost to the top Chinese in straight games of 9-11, 2-11, 4-11, 6-11.

Earlier, he had played a gruelling 95-minute match to beat a top-rung North Korean Jang Song Man 4-3 (11-8, 13-11, 9-11, 7-11, 12-10, 5-11, 11-7).

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