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Teenage rebels

Twins, Johnny and Luther Htoo, leaders of a rebel group fighting the Myanmarese military government surrendered in Thailand. The boys claim to be 13-years-old and are said to have magical powers that make them invincible in battle. They led a band known as God's Army said to have been responsible for armed attacks in Thailand in the last year and to have raided a village on the Thailand-Myanmar border in December.

The Concorde flies again

Airport workers and a small crowd cheered as the elegant form of the Concorde hurtled down the runway and disappeared into the sky from the Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris, oncee again.

On July 25, 2000, the plane took off from Paris, and crashed into a hotel two minutes later killing the 109 people on board and four people on the ground. The Concordes then in service with Air France and British Airways were grounded.

The latest 50-minute flight was to a military base near Marseilles, for 15 days of tests which concern the aircraft's performance on the ground. This is an indication of the French Government's determination to get Concorde, still a great symbol of national pride, back in the air.

Missing pachyderm

Photographs of a missing elephant filled newspapers in Austria, as the people were urged to help track down the 24-year-old five- ton pachyderm.

Customs officers were pursuing the cow elephant named Seila as she had been sold illegally to a circus. By the time the officials arrived, the circus director had fled with Seila and two other elephants.

Baby bandit

A baby was used to sneak weapons past security guards with metal detectors in a bank hold up in Brazil.The bandits made off with about $1,500 in cash without firing a shot.

A woman, holding the infant, asked the guards to allow her use a bathroom inside the bank. She then passed hidden pistols to her male companions. The baby had not been checked by the guards with metal detectors, a standard procedure for other visitors.

Compiled by R. KRITHIKA

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